In Barcelona, Huawei Tells its Story
Kevin O’Brien of The New York Times checks in from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where Huawei executive Ryan Ding has offered the press something the telecom giant has often avoided – access...
View ArticleWhat if Xi Gave an Interview and No One Cared?
When newly crowned president Xi Jinping gave an interview to reporters from the five BRICS nations on Tuesday, some felt that the lonely highlight was his speculation about a possible heir to Paul the...
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Netizen Voices: No Word on Bird Flu from CCTV News
Extensive non-coverage of the H7N9 bird flu, which has sickened and killed several patients in Shanghai and surrounding provinces. The April 5th edition of CCTV’s flagship evening news program News...
View ArticleDid Xi Snub North Korea in Boao Speech?
‘Tis the season for North Korea to escalate its rhetoric, and recent threats from the Hermit Kingdom have many wondering if China is growing frustrated with its longtime ally. President and CCP...
View ArticleAi Weiwei & Mo Yan on Publicity and Responsibility
In an interview and a recent speech, respectively, artist Ai Weiwei and Nobel-winning author Mo Yan expressed sharply different attitudes towards public exposure and social and political...
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Propaganda Past: New from China Copyright and Media
Children’s Day at Tiananmen, June 1, 1989. In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, “Propaganda Past” is now featured in our Censorship Vault series. All translations in this series are...
View ArticleWhat’s Next For Next Media Animation?
Popular for its satirical computer-generated animations of daily news, Taiwan-based Next Media Animation (NMA) tells fans what it’s like behind the scenes in the largest motion capture studios in Asia....
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Beware the WeChat Spy
WeChat, Tencent’s smartphone messaging application, could someday eclipse Weibo in popularity. Unlike Weibo, WeChat messages are private; groups are by invitation only. With this built-in sense of...
View ArticleYour Only Report on China’s World Media Summit
China Media Project’s David Bandurski takes a caustic look at this week’s Second Presidium Meeting of the World Media Summit in Hangzhou. The conference is led by Xinhua chief Li Congjun, who last...
View ArticleZhou Yongkang’s Hometown Rises To His Defense
China’s leaders have “appeared remarkably tolerant” of journalists and “curiosity seekers” who “stalk” former Communist Party security chief Zhou Yongkang’s family members in his hometown of Xiqiantou...
View ArticleBeijing on Terror Attacks: ‘You Must Not Spread the News’
One of the latest in a series of recent violent attacks, many of which have been labeled acts of “terrorism” attributed to “Xinjiang separatists” by China’s state media, occurred in Guangzhou on...
View ArticleThe CCP Learns the Fine Art of Public Relations
The China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong in Shanghai is one of the four top party schools working to groom up-and-coming young government and state-owned business leaders. While the institute is...
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Minitrue: CCTV’s Rui Chenggang Detained
The following censorship instruction, issued to the media by government authorities, has been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. News of...
View ArticleFor Press Passes, Journalists Must Now Pledge Secrecy
China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television (SAPPRFT) has announced that, in order to obtain the press certification needed to function as an effective reporter in...
View ArticleA Eulogy for the Cenci Journalism Project
Since 2011, the Cenci Journalism Project has been “reporting another dimension of the world,” allowing Chinese-speakers to access diverse global coverage of marginalized topics through translation....
View ArticleThePaper.cn and Propaganda 2.0
Chinese state media face new competition from independent “self-media” accounts on WeChat, dynamic provincial TV stations, and popular Weibo users. As mainstays of state media like CCTV see their...
View ArticleBeijing’s Covert Global Radio Network
In recent months, a Reuters series on China’s spreading global influence has investigated self-censorship in Hollywood and intimidation at the U.N.. Its latest installment focuses on radio stations and...
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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...
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Translation: Game Developers Lament Censors’ Demands
Like other media, video games in China are subject to a wide range of political and moral content requirements. These have included mandatory in-game fines for virtual second children; bans on...
View ArticleAi Weiwei & Mo Yan on Publicity and Responsibility
In an interview and a recent speech, respectively, artist Ai Weiwei and Nobel-winning author Mo Yan expressed sharply different attitudes towards public exposure and social and political...
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