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Cyber Candles for Two Tragedies

“Today, I light two candles: one for today, one for last year.” Yesterday marked two tragedies in China: the third day of floods in the nation’s capital and the one-year anniversary of the high-speed...

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Word of the Week: Believe It or Not, I Do

Editor’s Note: The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions....

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Cross-Talk Comics: In This Lifetime

Inspired by a People’s Daily screed on China’s rise and America’s role in staunching that rise, netizens have claimed one line in particular as their own: …with “Internet freedom” as its slogan, they...

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Netizen Voices: Iran’s LAN, China’s Wall

Iran has announced a three-phase project to build a national intranet. As part of this, some big Chinese websites will also be blocked in Iran. Netizens are naturally taken with the irony and drawing...

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Chinternet Meme: Three Effing Countries

  The “Queen Mother” refers to Ci Xi, the Empress Dowager. Puyi, the last emperor, began his rule at age two. Although the artist is clearly referring to Puyi, he was actually born in 1906....

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Netizen Voices: Guess Who?

MrWonder (琢磨先生), a well-followed Weibo user who claims to live in Saudi Arabia, recently posted a quip about “a certain group” that was quickly turned into a meme by fans: MrWonder: There’s a group...

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Cartoon: Godzilla’s Gentler Side

Cartoonist @q0506700 comments on the Diaoyu (Senkaku) Island dispute with a jab at his own country: In Japan, if the government wants your land, it will send 2 billion yen.In China, if the government...

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Apple, Weibo, and CCTV’s PR Nightmare

After an annual CCTV program last Friday criticized Apple for charging Chinese customers a fee to replace the back cover of iPhones, a service offered free of charge in other countries, netizens took...

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Netizen Voices: #In One Line, Prove You’re a Web Editor#

News on China’s Internet is restricted by a constant flow of directives from central government agencies, and China’s legions of website editors bear the heavy responsibility of making sure those...

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Word of the Week: Chinternet

Chinternet: Contraction of “China” and “Internet”; the Internet with Chinese characteristics. China’s “Great Firewall” filters certain foreign websites and webpages, while government and commercial...

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Happy Anniversary to China’s [Censored] Internet

Marking the 20th anniversary this week of the Internet’s arrival in China as major Chinese tech companies like Alibaba, Tencent and Sina’s Weibo expand their global presence, Adam Minter challenges a...

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Badiucao (巴丢草): Chinstagram

For his latest CDT cartoon, Badiucao comments on the recent news that the photo-sharing app Instagram is missing from Android stores in China, though it is apparently still available from China’s iOS...

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Xiao Qiang: “From Fart People to Citizens”

In April, CDT Founder and Editor-in-Chief Xiao Qiang delivered a talk at TedxLiberdade in tune with the event’s theme: “The Power of Together.” In his talk, Xiao discusses the Internet’s potential to...

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Amy Chang on the Internet with Chinese Characteristics

China is becoming increasingly assertive in controlling its Internet borders. At the World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang after the APEC summit last month, a manifesto on the central...

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Statement of the Week: China’s Internet is Open

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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