On September 12, 2003, John Battelle published the first post on chinadigitaltimes.net: Here’s what a Google Search on “china weblog” yields, I’m looking forward to seeing ours at the top...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/12/lexicon-20th-anniversary-edition/
In 2014, Leta Hong Fincher published her first book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, which used the lens of home ownership and marital property rights to examine wom...
Starting in March 2008, Tibetans across the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan took to the streets to call for religious freedom and an end to oppressive political an...
Surveys have shown that Xi Jinping’s hardline foreign policy is increasingly unpopular abroad. Given the CCP’s mixed success using soft power to repair China’s image, party propagandists ha...
Jeremy Wallace, associate professor of Government at Cornell University, joined CDT to discuss his new book, Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China. ...
Evidence of human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in Xinjiang has significantly increased over the past five years. As documented by researchers and human rights groups, the...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/03/interview-laura-murphy-on-forced-labor-in-xinjiang/
China’s soft power initiatives are often derided by Western observers as ineffective or counterproductive. Over a hundred Confucius Institutes in the U.S. and Europe have been targeted as arms ...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2021/12/interview-maria-repnikova-on-chinese-soft-power/
This is the full transcript, edited lightly for grammar and clarity, of an interview with Jeremy Brown, a historian at Simon Fraser University, on his book “June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests ...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2021/11/full-transcript-interview-jeremy-brown-on-june-fourth/
Xi Jinping’s call in 2013 to “tell China’s story well” accelerated an existing trend of Chinese media fanning out across the globe to strengthen the country’s external propaganda and in...
In China, 2021 has been a year for the history books or, more precisely, their revision. In March, the launch of a hotline to report “historical nihilism” presaged a broader campaign against ...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2021/11/jeremy-brown-on-june-fourth/
A former journalist, Leta Hong Fincher was the first American to receive a PhD in Sociology from Tsinghua University in Beijing. Her research there led to her first book, “Leftover Women: The R...
As we mark the 30th anniversary of the 1989 protest movement in China, and the subsequent military crackdown, CDT editors have put together a list of books to provide more in-depth context and an...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2019/06/tiananmen-background-reading/
Between 2005 and 2011, Australian JFK Miller served as editor-in-chief of the Shanghai-based English-language entertainment magazine That’s Shanghai. Coming to China with little prior knowledg...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2017/04/cdt-bookshelf-jfk-miller-trickle-censorship/
Shanghai-born blogger, author, director, singer, restaurateur, and race car driver Han Han published his first essay while still in junior high school in 2000. After dropping out of high school,...
The question of whether authors should accept censorship in exchange for publication within China has been much discussed in recent years. Some, like Ezra Vogel, have argued that it is “better ...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2016/04/unapproved-cuts-leta-hong-finchers-leftover-women/