Housing Activists Sentenced for “Picking Quarrels”
Housing rights activists Jia Lingmin and Liu Diwei were both given prison sentences today in Zhengzhou, Henan. Jia will serve four years in prison, and Liu one and a half. Both Jia and Liu lost their...
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Do You Speak for the Party or the People?
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens or encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
View ArticleChina’s Surveillance State: Henan, Xinjiang, and Beyond
As new Chinese surveillance technology spreads across the country and beyond, Sixth Tone’s Bibek Bhandari describes the use of new facial recognition-enabled headsets by railway security staff ahead of...
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Minitrue: Focus on Henan Flood Recovery; Do Not Report on Celebrity Tax Case...
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....
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Translation Compilation: “My Husband, John Doe”; Camera Crimes; Zhengzhou’s...
CDT Chinese has collected several essays and commentaries from across the Chinese internet grappling with the disasters inflicted by flooding in Henan. The essays, selections from which are translated...
View ArticleState Council Reports Henan Officials Covered Up Summer Flood Deaths
An investigation by China’s State Council has found that Henan officials covered up the death toll caused by severe flooding in July 2021. In August, local officials reported 302 confirmed deaths and...
View ArticleCitizens and State Media Outraged by Government Abuse of Henan Health Codes
As citizens revolt against never-ending lockdowns and local governments “resolutely struggle against all distortions, doubts and denials” of Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policy, as recently ordered by the...
View Article“Unidentified” Assailants Crush Depositors’ Protest in Henan
Hundreds of bank depositors clashed with police in Zhengzhou, the provincial capital of Henan, in a major escalation of a simmering conflict between rural customers and a consortium of likely insolvent...
View ArticleZhengzhou Flood Anniversary: Censored Memorials and More Extreme Weather
This Wednesday marked the one-year anniversary of floods in Henan on July 20, 2021, when historic levels of rainfall left almost 400 people dead and caused billions of dollars in property damage....
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Li Wenliang’s Wailing Wall, July and August 2022: “It’s Always the Victims...
Two years and four months after whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang’s death from COVID-19, the “Wailing Wall” that emerged in the comments under his last Weibo post continues to serve as a repository for the...
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,”...
View ArticleWorkers Flee Foxconn COVID Outbreak On Foot
An exodus of young workers fleeing a coronavirus outbreak at the Zhengzhou Foxconn factory on foot went viral this past weekend. Zhengzhou, Henan’s capital, has been dealing with a coronavirus outbreak...
View ArticleMourning for Victims of Urumqi Fire Escalates into Nationwide Anti-Lockdown,...
On Thursday, a deadly fire broke out in a predominantly-Uyghur residential building under COVID-19 lockdown in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital, and kicked off a series of nationwide protests calling for an...
View ArticleChina Moves To End Zero-COVID Policy
China’s zero-COVID policy is, seemingly, over. Guidelines, referred to colloquially as “The New 10 Points,” issued Wednesday by the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council...
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Tightened Security During Qingming Festival Appears to Target Public Mourning...
In the days following former premier Li Keqiang’s death in late October of 2023, mourners left hundreds of bouquets at his childhood home in Hefei, Anhui and in various public places in Zhengzhou,...
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