Cultural critic Han Han shares his personal experiences with censorship, shedding light on the tension in China creativity and control.

Chinese actor Zhao Dan wrote in 1980 that if the Party sought to “lead” arts and culture they would never flourish. The same is true today.

In a speech last week, China’s top propaganda official delivered the Party’s message on media policy, reiterating the need for control.

The full text of the Party’s “Decision” on cultural reform is released. But even as it affirms creativity, the document is stacked with restrictive language.

Didn’t you know? Everyone at right advanced “cultural soft power” in one rural county. But do the CCP’s cultural policies really herald a new age of creativity?

Today marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the start of the Xinhai Revolution in China, which overthrew the country’s last imperial dynasty. Here’s a quick look at how the anniversary looked in China’s newspapers.

Global media executives meet in Beijing to decide the future of the “international media order” through an ostensibly “non-governmental” institution established by the Chinese state.

English-language coverage of recent changes affecting two major newspapers in Beijing was a muddle. Here’s what you need to know.

On August 26, a Shanghai newspaper editorial drew some sensitive lessons for China from political changes in Libya.