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Activity of the Week: Getting Rice-Drunk
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
View ArticleMiss World Canada Says China Blocking Visa
Anastasia Lin, the 25-year-old Chinese-Canadian woman who won the 2015 Miss World Canada title, says that Chinese authorities are refusing to provide her with the invitation letter needed apply for a...
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Activity of the Week: Drink Tea
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
View ArticleWomen’s Day and the Fight for Gender Equality in China
International Women’s Day was first celebrated by the Socialist Party of America and later in Europe to call for women’s equal rights, suffrage, and right to strike, but is now celebrated in China by...
View ArticleYoung Feminist Activists Find Solidarity Abroad
Alec Ash, author of “Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China,” writes in Vox that despite the recent repression of civil society and dissent in China, he finds cause for hope among China’s younger...
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Badiucao Launches Global Art for Liu Xiaobo Campaign
On July 12, as Liu Xiaobo was in his final hours of life and Chinese authorities had made clear they wouldn’t allow the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate to go abroad for medical treatment, CDT...
View ArticleThe Chilling Effect of Lee Ming-che’s Trial
Last month, Taiwanese activist and NGO worker Lee Ming-che was tried on charges of subversion after being detained in March while entering China. The trial, which Lee’s wife called a “stage drama,”...
View ArticleTranslation: Speaking of Zhang Yunfan…
Xi Jinping’s ongoing crackdown on civil society and parallel drive to reinforce ideological orthodoxy has affected rights lawyers and activists, academics, and journalists, among others. While the vast...
View ArticleTranslation: Follow-up to Sexual Harassment Petition
Efforts to activate a Chinese #MeToo movement reportedly met much official and cultural resistance, with censors apparently restricting usage of the #我也是# hashtag online, cultural barriers preventing...
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People of the Week: The Feminist Five
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of public intellectuals, cartoonists, human rights activists, and other people pushing for change in China. The...
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Minitrue: Don’t Hype #MeToo Content
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. All...
View ArticleYoung #MeToo Activists Broaden Calls for Equality
In China, the #metoo movement against sexual harassment and rape had a slow start, due to both deeply ingrained cultural and social norms and political censorship and interference. But it has gained...
View ArticleLabor Activists Disappear After Suspected Raids
At least ten Chinese labor activists across several cities were detained over the weekend in what some believe to be coordinated raids. Several of the activists were physically assaulted and forced...
View ArticleMissing University Alumni Activists Spark Outcry
A group of Peking University graduates has signed a public letter this week decrying the mistreatment of their fellow alumni, who were detained this past weekend as part of what appeared to be a...
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Translation: Sun Min, Brave Pioneer for Workers’ Rights
Peking University graduate Sun Min was one of the 16 student and labor activists detained by authorities across China between November 9 and 11, and as of today her whereabouts remain unknown. This...
View ArticleTranslation: Chan Kin-man’s Farewell Lecture
On November 14, 2018, social scientist, professor, and co-founder of Hong Kong’s 79-day Occupy movement Chan Kin-man delivered a farewell speech to a packed hall at the Chinese University of Hong...
View ArticleFiction: “Lulu,” by Te-Ping Chen
The New Yorker this week features a piece of short fiction by Te-Ping Chen, drawing on her time as a China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. The story details a young woman’s emerging...
View ArticleU.S. Tech Workers Back Chinese Counterparts
In recent months, Chinese tech workers have used the Microsoft-owned codesharing platform GitHub to coordinate the “996.icu” campaign against the long work hours demanded by many of their employers....
View ArticleDespite Sentencing Tangshan Attackers, Authorities Ignore Violence Against Women
Three months after a group of men assaulted four women at a restaurant in Tangshan, a district court in Hebei sentenced the men to prison for a number of crimes. Their sentencing comes after...
View ArticleVoices of July: “Henan Banks, Return Our Savings!”
“Voices of July” continues CDT’s monthly “Voices of …” collection of viral and censored audio-visual content from all over China. Inspired by the original audio-visual compilation “Voices of April,”...
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