CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we ...

Responses on Chinese social media to state broadcaster CCTV’s annual Spring Festival Gala last week were less than uniformly rapturous. A deleted post from WeChat public account Selling Apricot ...

Now, you can combat internet censorship in a new way: by toggling the switch below while browsing China Digital Times, you can provide a secure "bridge" for people who want to freely access ...

This winter, a heating crisis struck rural Hebei after provincial authorities banned domestic coal-burning and then rolled back subsidies for natural gas, leaving many residents facing prohibitively ...

This Communist Party slogan was heavily used during the Cultural Revolution, an era in which citizens were incentivized to spy on and even falsely accuse family and neighbors of being disloyal to ...

Allusion to Liu Xiaobo, who was prevented from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. Some bloggers who used the term "empty chair" in their posts had their accounts blocked, while others who ...

The Milk Tea Alliance is an online solidarity movement between pro-democracy supporters in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and Myanmar. It was started in 2020 by activists involved in social movements ...

Code name for Zhou Yongkang, former public security chief and close ally of fallen Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai; a popular brand of instant noodles. The kāng 康 in the brand name is the same as ...

Chai Jing is the impassioned journalist known for her viral self-funded documentary on air pollution, "Under the Dome" (Qióngdǐng zhīxià 穹顶之下). Co-released online in February 2015 by Youku and ...

神棍的统治，从来离不开“吹”的魔法。从他端坐简朴办公室的摆拍照，到深入民间与民众握手的温情瞬间，伊朗官方的宣传画笔，一直勾勒出一个“与人民共命运”的完美形象。

压迫、战争、混乱……可能是许多人对伊朗最深刻的印象。即便没有战争阴影、石油利益纠葛，在大部分人心中，这依然一个充满狂热的宗教原教旨主义的社会，对言论自由、宗教自由肆意扼杀、打压。它仿佛是人权、自由的彻底反面。但这是否就是伊朗的全部？