When Mr. Tuo Zhen, the propaganda chief of Guangdong province, rewrote and replaced the New Year’s editorial of the Southern Weekend newspaper without the consent of its editors, he probably did not think it would make much of a splash....
A Hong Kong University media scholar's review of the strife that led to a strike at one of China's most influential newspapers.
For two days, journalists at the Southern Weekly offices and hundreds of their supporters called for free speech.
I felt a shudder of déjà vu watching the mounting protests inside China this week of the Communist Party for censoring an editorial in Southern Weekend, a well-known liberal newspaper in the southern city of Guangzhou. It is all too...
An internal standoff has escalated into a full-blown crisis at Southern Weekly, where Guangdong's propaganda chief meddled in the publication's "New Year's Greeting."...
It is a social media classic, a send-up of the corruption and profligacy that so often enrage Web users in China. A very short story variously titled “I Did Not Eat For Free” and “Help Me Pay This Bill” has been making the rounds for months on...
Hundreds gathered outside the headquarters of a newspaper office in southern China to support journalists who had declared a strike to protest censorship by officials.
Can China’s raucous, muckraking Internet culture survive if microbloggers are forced to disclose their identities.
U.S. company quietly drops warning message that Chinese users saw when searching for politically sensitive phrases
It is perhaps a sign of the times in China that an image of nothing more than a ramshackle county government building could echo so widely. Since its posting on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, hours before New Year’s Eve, the image (see below) has...
China is still considering the visa application of a New York Times journalist who the paper says was forced to leave.
A correspondent who applied for press accreditation in September left because authorities did not act by Dec. 31.
An New York Times reporter was expelled from China in apparent retaliation for a report about the Chinese Premier's wealth.
The People’s Bank of China will issue gold and silver coins celebrating the nation's first aircraft carrier.
All of you Sinica old-timers might remember a show we ran two years ago on the death of the China blog, in which Jeremy, Kaiser, and Will Moss mused about whether the...
China’s new propaganda chief, Liu Qibao, has laid out an agenda for increased political controls on the Internet.
For years, China’s net nannies overlooked virtual private networks used to jump the Great Firewall. But in recent weeks, even these tools have begun to falter, frustrating tech-savvy Chinese and foreign businesspeople who now struggle to access...
A Chinese newspaper reports a former Chongqing police chief played a direct role in organizing the murder of a U.K. citizen.
2012 saw social media supercharg one of contemporary China’s finest forms of cultural and political expression: the Internet meme.
Focus joins a growing number of Chinese stocks withdrawing from US exchanges after corporate governance concerns depressed their valuations.
A mysteriouys and heavily guarded suburban Beijing courtyard isn't open to public, only to the petitioners corralled there.
People’s Daily cautions that the Internet is as much a tool of rumor and misinformation as a platform for information sharing.
Tragedy can strike anywhere. Mere hours before the horrific shooting at an American school in Newtown, Connecticut that left twenty-eight people dead, including twenty children, a horrific school attack also happened in China. At an elementary...
When CCTV aired, uncut V for Vendetta about an anti-totalitarian masked crusader, viewers couldn’t believe their eyes.
Since China unveiled the new Politburo Standing Committee at the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the country’s Web users have been paying close attention to the new elite group of leaders who will set the country’s agenda...
Two hundred million Sina Weibo users found Tuesday they could search for Chinese leaders and were free to critiique.
Xi Jinping is hitching himself to Deng Xiaoping’s legacy and style...
The Committee to Protect Journalists says nearly two-thirds of China's 32 jailed journalists are ethnic Tibetans and Uighurs.
Glad-handing with the locals. Kissing babies. Eating fast food. These are tried and true ways that American politicians seek to advertise their common touch; but when China’s new leaders employ these methods, it is greeted as a pleasant surprise...
Liu Xia trembled uncontrollably and cried as she described how her confinement under house arrest has been absurd.
The watchdog's look at Chinese affiliates of five U.S. major accounting firms deals a blow to China firms eyeing U.S. captial.
This year may prove to be a pivot point, when the myths that China and the world had adopted about the politics and economics of the People’s Republic began to erode.
The U.S. financial watchdog says the firms failed to produce work papers from their audits of several China-based companies that are under S.E.C. investigation.
Chen Ghuangcheng urges new Communist Party chief and president-in-waiting Xi Jinping to follow Myanmar's model of reform or risk a violent political transition.
Wanda, the world's No 1 movie theater owner, is planning a $10 billion spending spree to make Hollywood film co-productions and buy and build ...
Chen Kegui, nephew, of Chen Guangcheng, was convicted of "intentional infliction of injury" during a clash with local officials.
The nephew of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng is sentenced to three years in jail.
Near World AIDS Day, China's Vice Premier Li Keqiang said HIV/AIDS is "not only a medical issue but also a social challenge."
China suspended a broadcaster after an unaired segment of a TV game show leaked online showing a shouting match with a woman who calls her daughter the next Lady Gaga.
Box office haul in China, which now stands as the second-largest film market in the world after Japan, will surpass that in the U.S. by 2020, according to Ernst & Young.
The release of Lu Chuan's latest film was delayed until after the recent leadership transition. The film depicts the bloody machinations of the first Han emperor's wife.
A spoof article about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un being the sexiest man alive ended up a real news item in China as a result of Chinese whispers in the digital age.
A 5-year-old sex tape of an 18-year-old woman allegedly hired by developers to sleep with a city official is causing yet another scandal for China’s ruling Communists.
An active Beijing-based micro-blogger named Dongdong Wang recently tweeted this image on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter: {vertical_photo_right}
At first glance, it doesn’t look like much: Outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao (left) and outgoing...
Roughly 400 million Chinese use Weibo, China's Twitter, and often do so to expose corruption.
Top Communist newspaper cited American satirical paper's slide show of North Korean leader.
Elton John struck a note of support for dissident artist Ai Weiwei at his show in Beijing, but did he also strike a blow at China’s live music scene?
Chinese Insurance giant said recent media coverage contained "serious inaccuracies, facts being distorted and taken out of context."
Director Gao Qunshu's drama is about a Beijing police detective's battle against crime with a squad of plainclothes crime-hunters.
The journalist who publicized the deaths of five young boys in southwestern China last week, has been forced to take a “vacation.”
Xu Bing, the renowned Chinese artist whose many laurels include a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award and an appointment as vice president of China’s Central Academy of Fine Arts, has long...
A doctored photo of China's top officials doing a popular South Korean dance went viral 'til Chinese censors pulled it down.
Mo Yan had a tuxedo made for the December 10 prize gala in Stockholm and is studying the waltz, in case he's invited to dance.
Government broadcaster CCTV saw bids for 2013 prime-time ad sales jump 11% from this year, driven mostly by local marketers.
