A viral scandal that started out as the tale of one doctor’s extramarital affairs and medical malpractice has exploded into a ...

As China continues to tighten information flows in and out of the country, how reliable are statistics from official Chinese ...

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published its 2025 World Press Freedom Index, which showed a notable drop in the rankings of ...

A series of state-media reports on the theme of the May 1 International Workers Day provide a window into the CCP’s ...

Amid signs that U.S. tariffs are starting to bite into China’s exports, the country’s foreign ministry issued a defiant vow ...

The ever-growing list of government pro-natalist initiatives at local and national levels has so far failed to slow China’s ...

Chai Jing is the impassioned journalist known for her viral self-funded documentary on air pollution, "Under the Dome" (Qióngdǐng zhīxià 穹顶之下). Co-released online in February 2015 by ...

Reference to Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei (Ài Wèiwei 艾未未). The use of this code lead to the phrase "love the future" being blocked from Weibo search results around June-August 2011.

This Communist Party slogan was heavily used during the Cultural Revolution, an era in which citizens were incentivized to spy on and even falsely accuse family and neighbors of being disloyal to ...

In December 2023, we published a revised edition of the Lexicon as an eBook, which includes updated entries for 104 of the most salient terms we have collected over the past 20 years. Please ...