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Netizen Voices: “Fixed Matches, Rigged Races … What’s Going on with Chinese Sport?”
Beijing’s half-marathon is under investigation after three runners from Kenya and Ethiopia appeared to allow a Chinese runner to win. The odd ending of the race saw Willy Mnangat and Robert Ket...
Journalists Document Decline of Media Freedom in China, Hong Kong
In its annual report on the state of media freedom in China last year, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) described how authorities used COVID prevention measures to “strangle�...
Quote of the Day: “All Beautiful Things Will Eventually B... Not Forget That This Is a Place Where Dreams Are Punished.”
In the wake of the Article 23 legislation passed two weeks ago in Hong Kong, further constricting media and speech freedom, there have been a number of bookstore closures and media departures fro...
Xi Jinping Explains “Without Switching Shoulders” Meme in Xinhua Report
Explaining a meme often takes the wind out of a joke’s sails. Not so in this case. A recent Xi Jinping quote published by Xinhua, China’s official state news agency, has breathed new life int...
Quote of the Day: “If We Don’t Face Our History Squarely, How Can We Hope to Have a Future?”
Chinese social media has been awash with interest in Netflix’s new series “3 Body Problem,” an adaptation based on the Hugo Award-winning novel by Chinese author Liu Cixin. On the day of it...
“Toxic” Literature Exam Questions Inspire Nationalist, Anti-Japanese Outburst
A middle school literature exam in Chengdu has triggered the latest outburst of anti-Japanese nationalism. Students were asked to analyze an excerpt from “Fallen Azaleas,” an amateurish pie...
Lawsuit Against Mo Yan Rejected, but Attacks on Nobel-Prize Winning Author No Less Tragic
The nationalist blogger who attempted to sue Nobel-Prize winning author Mo Yan for 1.5 billion yuan for allegedly “defaming heroes and martyrs” in his fiction has had his lawsuit rejected by ...
Netflix’s “3 Body Problem” Sparks Debates About Censorship, History, and Cinematic Adaptations
Film censorship has long plagued China’s creative arts industry and stifled foreign products seeking domestic Chinese audiences. The shrinking space for artistic expression, along with rising n...
Words of the Week: Xi Jinping’s Penchant for “Pointing the Way Forward”
The use of the standard Party formulation of Xi Jinping “pointing the way forward” on various policy issues has become so commonplace that the phrase has become an object of satire, a way of ...
“Compass-in-Chief”: The 240+ Topics Xi Jinping Has “Pointed The Way Forward” On
Among Xi Jinping’s many Party-bestowed titles and hundreds of banned netizen nicknames is one that points to his penchant for claiming personal leadership over and insight into seemingly everyt...
Quote of the Day: “Nowadays, People are Proving Their Patriotism by Destroying Bottles of Nongfu Spring Water”
In recent weeks, two very familiar household names in China—Nobel prize-winning novelist Mo Yan and bottled water company Nongfu Spring—have come under fire from extreme Chinese nationalists,...
Extreme Nationalists Accuse Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, Bottled Water Company Nongfu Spring of Being Insufficiently Patriotic
In recent weeks, both the Nobel prize-winning novelist Mo Yan and the Chinese bottled water company Nongfu Spring have come under fire from extreme Chinese nationalists, who have accused them of ...
Street Slogans, Reading Lists, and WeChat Moments: March 8, 2024 International Women’s Day in China
This year’s March 8 U.N. International Women’s Day slogan “Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress” draws attention to the $360 billion annual deficit in gender-equality measures by 2030. Ac...
Censored Essay: Peter Hessler Sells His Car
Acclaimed writer Peter Hessler is selling his car in Chengdu, after leaving China in 2021 when his teaching contract was abruptly terminated. Online, the sale of his Honda CRV has spurred a serie...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/02/censored-essay-peter-hessler-sells-his-car/
Provincial “Ideological Liberation” Campaign Calls for “Unswerving Alignment” with Xi Jinping
A provincial campaign to jumpstart cadres out of timidity and “formalism” raised hackles online for framing “ideological liberation” as adherence to Xi Jinping Thought. A notice published...