Tracking Control

China Updates Rules on News Reposting

Oct 21, 2021 | David Bandurski
The release yesterday of an updated list of domestic news sources that can legally be shared by digital media is an effort to maintain and reinforce the Party’s control over news at the source, and to expand sourcing in a way that befits broader changes to the country’s information landscape.

Tracking Control

China LinkedOut

Oct 18, 2021 | Stella Chen

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Topping the Inequality Rankings

Oct 12, 2021 | Stella Chen

Tracking Control

China’s Leftist Prophet Speaks Again

Oct 11, 2021 | David Bandurski

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Shaming China’s “Buddhist Beauties”

Oct 8, 2021 | Stella Chen

Tracking Control

Curbing China’s Script Murder Craze

Oct 1, 2021 | Stella Chen

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Questions Linger on New Education Rules

Sep 15, 2021 | Stella Chen

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Fandoms in the Crosshairs

Sep 13, 2021 | CMP Staff

Tracking Control

Profound Transformations

Sep 1, 2021 | David Bandurski

Public Diplomacy

Oct 12, 2021 | David Bandurski
From its modern origins in the 1960s, the notion of “public diplomacy”, which broadly involves the cultivation by governments of public opinion in other countries and intercultural communications, was meant to distinguish government-led international public relations efforts from the distasteful notion of propaganda. The trend in China in the re…

Big Data Swindling

Oct 5, 2021 | Stella Chen
“Big data swindling,” or (大数据杀熟), also sometimes translated “big data backstabbing,” is a form of algorithmic discrimination by which the prices for the same goods and services online are hiked up for existing customers. This form of data-enabled price discrimination has been widely practiced in China in recent years by online shopping platforms…

Keyboard Warrior

Sep 9, 2021 | Stella Chen
For nearly a decade, the term “keyboard warrior,” or jiànpánxiá (键盘侠), has referred in China to people who use their computer keyboards (or their mobile screens) as weapons to make abusive or aggressive online posts on various social or political issues without revealing their real identities. The term has often been used by state media to criti…
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Fandoms in the Crosshairs

Sep 13, 2021 | CMP Staff
Chinese state media have characterized a broad internet clean-up campaign undertaken since May this year as an effort to correct the moral failings of internet culture. But a closer look at the discourse used to describe the “clean up” of fandom culture, communities of online enthusiasts sharing …

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Profound Transformations

Sep 1, 2021 | David Bandurski
An article penned by a virtually unknown blogger, Li Guangman (李光满), and shared across scores of websites, has prompted speculation that China is on the brink of new political movement.

China Newspeak

A History of Common Prosperity

Aug 27, 2021 | David Bandurski
Talk of wealth redistribution is in the air in China. And two words, “common prosperity,” have condensed hopes and fears over the changes to come. Where does the phrase “common prosperity” originate within the history of CCP discourse, and what can this history tell us about the present struggle …

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State Media Post on Taliban Prompts Backlash

Aug 17, 2021 | David Bandurski
As the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan and its capital, Kabul, prompting concerns about possible acts of violence committed by the Islamic militant group, a Weibo post from the CCP’s official People’s Daily newspaper seemed to whitewash the group’s origins — drawing criticism from internet…

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