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China listening in on Skype, Microsoft assumes you approve

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Skype is one of the most popular services for making phone calls and chatting over the Internet, but users are probably not aware that phone calls and text chats can...

WeChat: the Chinese social media app that has dissidents worried

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Chinese activists believe security services are using WeChat to monitor in real time the movements of some of its 200 million subscribers. WeChat's popularity has grown dramatically since its launch...

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Tech-Web

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5 months 1 week ago

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Freed Chongqing Prisoner Talks about Reeducation-through-Labor

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Translated interview- Of the hundreds of thousands of victims of China’s arbitrary, extralegal “reeducation-through-labor” system, a young man in Chongqing named Ren Jianyu (任建宇) was recently freed, thanks to the...

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General

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5 months 1 week ago

Ren Jianyu

reeducation-through-labor

rule of law

RTL

justice

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Will China’s raging war of online anti-corruption become another Culture Revolution?

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There is an on-going debate on how to make sense of online anti-corruption in China. The biggest concern comes from online anti-corruption’s dependence on the people, instead of an established...

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Violeta Camarasa

5 months 1 week ago

online anti-corruption

corruption

internet censorship

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Chinese Netizens Just Realized The Real Xinhua Is On Twitter, And They’re Kind Of Pissed

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The ironic presence of official News Agency Xinhua on Twitter (blocked in China). What do Chinese netizens think about it?

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5 months 1 week ago

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Top 10 Chinese Internet Memes of 2012

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With over 400 million Weibo (China’s twitter) users, Chinese social media has become a prominent source keeping people updated about what's happening in China. As the year comes to an...

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5 months 1 week ago

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What's on China social media?

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What are China netizens up to? Last week two main stories, the nice but fake detention of ten ‘jiefang’ agents in Beijing and the Nobel prize Mo Yan’s words on...

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General

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5 months 1 week ago

Mo Yan

jiefang

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Photos from 1962 of Mainland Refugees Fleeing Famine Rejected by HK

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As war and famine ravaged the mainland, hundreds of thousands fled to British Hong Kong during the 40s, 50s and 60s. Hong Kong based historian Frank Dikötter (2010) estimated that,...

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Chinese History

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Violeta Camarasa

5 months 1 week ago

hong kong

famine

Great Leap Forward

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China's Disempowered Urban Planners Build Support Through Weibo

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China is experiencing major urban expansion, but urban planners have little freedom to do their work, as the government and developers are the main decision makers. Urban planners have now...

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China Environment

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5 months 1 week ago

development

environment

urban plannning

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Ministry of Truth: Mo Yan and More

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The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by various central (and sometimes local) government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and...

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Violeta Camarasa

5 months 1 week ago

censorship

china media

press freedom

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