The company behind the racist Chinese laundry detergent ad that sparked widespread online outrage around the world issued a...
Entitled "Marx is a post-90"—China's version of a millennial—the song extols the communist godfather's supposed coolness.
Internet giant Baidu said May 23, it would gradually take down discussion forums on literature from its popular online bulletin board service to remove content suspected of infringing upon intellectual property rights.
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According to an op-ed in Xinhua, an official state-published newspaper, being an unmarried and childless woman makes Tsai unfit for her job.
Last month, midway through a whirlwind tour of United States universities, Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong took a break for a crab cake and mac-and-cheese lunch at a Manhattan brasserie. Wong, 19, came to international...
Internet mercenaries are paid by the government to spread propaganda messages online.
They are the most hated group in Chinese cyberspace. They are, to hear their ideological opponents tell it, “fiercely ignorant,” keen to “insert themselves in everything,” and preen as if they were “spokesmen for the country.”...
The common belief that people who post pro-party online messages are paid 50 cents per post leads people in China to call them the Fifty Cent Party.
For those of us who teach and research the Chinese language, it is often difficult to describe how the Chinese characters function in conveying meaning and sound, and it’s always a particular challenge to explain how the writing...
Communist party’s decision not to address the anniversary until 24 hours after it had passed underlined its discomfort.
How to handle the era's contentious legacy has remained a challenge to China's Communist rulers to this day.
China rebukes nationalist Chinese tabloid Global Times over an online poll ahead of Taiwan’s presidential inauguration and dubbing Donald Trump a “buffoon.”
Welcome to China’s flourishing, new reality-show industry, where regular people use smartphones to live stream whatever suits their whims.
Joe and Anthony Russo, directors of the Marvel franchise’s last two films, will co-produce China’s own version of Captain America.
The movie is likely to pass the 1-billion renminbi ($153-million) mark, said an analyst from film industry consulting firm.
Many believe Baidu's claims that it performs strict due diligence before accepting ads.
One of the most applauded songs of the evening was “This Is the Kind of Man We Want to Marry.”
Propaganda officials warn state media off using moniker after push to portray leader as man of the people appears to backfire.
China’s military has released a rap music video titled “Battle Declaration” as part of a campaign to lure young recruits.
Chinese regulators have begun an investigation into the Internet giant Baidu due to misleading medical advertising.
A Chinese college student recently died of cancer after receiving questionable treatment from a hospital advertised on Baidu.
A growing uproar from critics accusing Marvel of racism in casting a white actress in a role that should have gone to an Asian actor
Freedom House scored China 87/100—with higher marks indicating greater restrictions—on press freedom in its 2016 survey.
The Chinese government’s control over the Internet could get even tighter, with regulators floating a proposal for the state to take 1% stakes in major Chinese Internet.
The American Bar Association rejected a book written by the Chinese human rights lawyer Teng Biao.
State-sanctioned TV drama will focus on the Communist Party’s resolve to eradicate corruption.
A poster widely displayed across Beijing tells the story of a female civil servant who is wooed by a foreign spy posing as a visiting scholar.
One of China's biggest internet stars Papi Jiang has promised to "correct" herself, following warnings from government officials.
China is marking National Security Education Day with a poster warning young female government workers about dating handsome foreigners.
Fifty years ago this May 16, Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a chaotic, terrifying, and often deadly decade-long campaign to “purify” C.C.P. ideology and reassert his political...
The former Focus Features CEO said China is leveraging its booming box office to replicate Hollywood's success.
Their hedonistic antics of some younger members of China's elite are thought to have no place amid a national austerity drive.
Twitter's new Chinese chief appointment has aroused fears of potential censorship.
The British astrophysicist amassed two million followers within hours of launching his account on Tuesday.
Twenty-five companies, including Tencent, Alibaba, and Baidu, have signed on the help the government.
A new report from the Office of the United States Trade Representative lists, for the first time, Chinese Internet censorship as a trade barrier. The possible implications are complex: it could strengthen the hand of U.S. businesses, but also...
The limits have posed a significant burden to foreign suppliers, hurting both Internet sites and users who depend on them for business.”
People's Liberation Army newspaper put forth Zootopia’s swapping of the roles of predator and prey as proof of its agitprop.
It's dangerous for higher leaders regarding internal party credibility as much as the broader public.
How foreign journalists report on the China-Africa story is often determined by the national origin of their news organization. While there are no doubt exceptions, the U.S. news media frequently frame China as the neo-colonial...
Fang Binxing was himself blocked from viewing a South Korean website during a talk at the Harbin Institute of Technology.
The names of relatives of several top leaders are found in the documents exposing offshore companies, but most citizens will never hear of the news.
On April 3, the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit International Committee of Investigative Journalists dropped what struck many as a bombshell: news that a leaked trove of 11.5 million previously secret files from Panama-based law firm Mossack...
Authorities have attempted to discourage correspondents from reporting on sensitive stories.
Ten Years, the film about growing anxiety that Beijing is eroding HK's freedoms, is unlikedly to be released in China.
It’s still questionable, however, how much of their political message actually gets through.
Any website that has not procured its domain from inside China will not be accessible.
Under the "reason for resignation" section, he wrote: "Unable to bear your surname".
Access may have become possible because Google had introduced a series of new IP servers.
The letter focuses on what it says is Xi's “gathering of all power” in his own hands and restrictions on freedom of speech.
At least a few of Facebook’s 1.5 billion users now know that founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg ran several miles in some of Beijing’s most notorious smog on Friday March 18 while he was in the city attending a conference. Famously...
An influential Communist Party critic with more than 220,000 Twitter followers said authorities detained his family in Guangdong.
It sparked fears that Chinese authorities were overriding the "one country, two systems" formula.
Nicknamed “Papi Jiang,” the graduate student from Beijing’s Central Academy of Drama is famous for her mocking videos.
People posted photoshopped pictures of him jogging through other Tiananmen tableaus after his facebook update.
