CDT编者按： 2023年12月，有中国“民间防艾第一人”之称的高耀洁医生在美国纽约逝世，享年95岁。2024年12月30日，自由亚洲电台旗下的中文新闻杂志 歪脑 ...

假的，假的，全是假的，假到连俄罗斯人都看不下去了。有个俄罗斯人在上海逛俄罗斯商品馆，发现里面卖的商品压根就不是来自俄罗斯，吐槽了几句，被赶了出来。 风靡一时的所谓“俄罗斯进口商品”，早在几个月以前就被爆出过各种问题。四川广元，有人吃了“俄罗斯进口奶粉”以后，血糖直接飙升。经当地警方调查，这个所谓的“俄罗斯进口奶粉”，其实就是一个郑州小伙在一间安置房里生产出来的，用洗澡盆把植脂末和麦芽糊精混合到一起 ...

One of Brazil’s most high-profile Chinese investors has become embroiled in a scandal that threatens to upend its presence in the country. Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer BYD was building a ...

Ermeiyaoxiaodao (@二枚腰小道): GFW (Great Firewall of China) has blocked all Google services, including Google Scholar, which is essential to research. If you think this is unacceptable, we ...

Ai Xiaoming is a documentary filmmaker, author, and women's rights activist. Ai has frequently collaborated with documentary filmmaker Hu Jie. She is professor emerita of literature and women's ...

Vague descriptor that is often used as code for towing the Party line. “Positive energy” was meme-ified in China during the 2010 trial of Song Shanmu, the founder of a well-known vocational ...

Like other marginalized groups in the U.S., Chinese migrants and students are anxiously preparing for the policy changes under a second presidential term of Donald Trump. The president-elect has ...

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 ...

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.

A self-deprecating description of individual investors who re-invest in the stock market after initial losses; also used to address youth disillusionment and endemic government corruption.

Coded support for the Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

Murong Xuecun is the pen name of writer and anti-censorship activist Hao Qun (郝群). Originally an internet novelist, he has become one of the most prominent China-based critics of Beijing's ...