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Translations: As Tributes Pour In, Chengdu’s You Xing Bookstore Gets a Reprieve From Feared Closure
"When an online commenter asked, 'Why [might it close]? The bookstore has always had such good events,' Zhang Feng replied, 'That’s exactly the reason.'"
"When an online commenter asked, 'Why [might it close]? The bookstore has always had such good events,' Zhang Feng replied, 'That’s exactly the reason.'"
Translations: As Tributes Pour In, Chengdu’s You Xing Bookstore Gets a Reprieve From Feared Closure
Following more than a week of speculation that Chengdu’s You Xing Bookstore (有杏书店, Yǒu Xìng Shūdiàn) would soon close, amid an outpouring of tributes from customers and supporters, it appears that the...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Translations: As Tributes Pour In, Chengdu’s You Xing Bookstore Gets a Reprieve From Feared Closure
"When an online commenter asked, 'Why [might it close]? The bookstore has always had such good events,' Zhang Feng replied, 'That’s exactly the reason.'"
"When an online commenter asked, 'Why [might it close]? The bookstore has always had such good events,' Zhang Feng replied, 'That’s exactly the reason.'"
NED – China Digital Times: 2025 Democracy Award Honoree
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China Digital Times: 2025 Democracy Award Honoree - NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY
NED honors China Digital Times for its unwavering commitment to chronicling the Chinese people’s struggle for freedom.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
NED – China Digital Times: 2025 Democracy Award Honoree
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November 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Transnational repression at the IndieChina Film Festival: Transnational repression at the IndieChina Film Festival: open.substack.com/pub/donaldcl...
Transnational repression at the IndieChina Film Festival
Some distressing news from New York: a festival of independent Chinese films scheduled for November 2025 has been crippled by Chinese government threats against participants and others connected with ...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Transnational repression at the IndieChina Film Festival: Transnational repression at the IndieChina Film Festival: open.substack.com/pub/donaldcl...
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“Many idiots who have lost their minds due to excess imbibing of ‘positive energy’ are utterly oblivious to the fact that we are all, first and foremost, human beings.”
Taiwanese Singer Zheng Zhihua’s Boarding Difficulties at Shenzhen Airport Spur Debate About Disability Access
"What Zheng Zhihua wanted was dignity, but some people tacitly accept a lack of dignity in their own lives, and by extension, they don’t feel that others are deserving of dignity, either!"
"What Zheng Zhihua wanted was dignity, but some people tacitly accept a lack of dignity in their own lives, and by extension, they don’t feel that others are deserving of dignity, either!"
Taiwanese Singer Zheng Zhihua’s Boarding Difficulties at Shenzhen Airport Spur Debate About Disability Access in China
Taiwanese singer Zheng Zhihua’s complaint about a difficult experience boarding a flight at Shenzhen’s main airport has spurred heated online debate about barrier-free access for disabled people in Ch...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Many idiots who have lost their minds due to excess imbibing of ‘positive energy’ are utterly oblivious to the fact that we are all, first and foremost, human beings.”
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Includes a photo timeline of other "warrior" protests, which shows how they inspire each other: echoed slogans, repeated strategies like remotely activated projectors …. but the man behind the famous Sitong Bridge protest was reportedly sentenced to 9 years, and still most do this in person.
Beijing Banner Protester: "Establish a New China That is Free, Humane, and Governed by Rule of Law"
"CDT Chinese editors noted censorship of the following combinations: 'Sanlitun + lift ban on political parties', 'Sanlitun + protest', 'Sanlitun + warrior', 'Sitong Bridge + Sanlitun' …"
"CDT Chinese editors noted censorship of the following combinations: 'Sanlitun + lift ban on political parties', 'Sanlitun + protest', 'Sanlitun + warrior', 'Sitong Bridge + Sanlitun' …"
Beijing Banner Protester: "Establish a New China That is Free, Humane, and Governed by Rule of Law"
The image above shows a one-man protest that reportedly took place at the high-end Taikoo Li Sanlitun mall (formerly Sanlitun Village) in Beijing on October 25, shortly after the end of the Party’s Fo...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Includes a photo timeline of other "warrior" protests, which shows how they inspire each other: echoed slogans, repeated strategies like remotely activated projectors …. but the man behind the famous Sitong Bridge protest was reportedly sentenced to 9 years, and still most do this in person.
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Beijing Banner Protester: "Establish a New China That is Free, Humane, and Governed by Rule of Law"
"CDT Chinese editors noted censorship of the following combinations: 'Sanlitun + lift ban on political parties', 'Sanlitun + protest', 'Sanlitun + warrior', 'Sitong Bridge + Sanlitun' …"
"CDT Chinese editors noted censorship of the following combinations: 'Sanlitun + lift ban on political parties', 'Sanlitun + protest', 'Sanlitun + warrior', 'Sitong Bridge + Sanlitun' …"
Beijing Banner Protester: "Establish a New China That is Free, Humane, and Governed by Rule of Law"
The image above shows a one-man protest that reportedly took place at the high-end Taikoo Li Sanlitun mall (formerly Sanlitun Village) in Beijing on October 25, shortly after the end of the Party’s Fo...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Beijing Banner Protester: "Establish a New China That is Free, Humane, and Governed by Rule of Law"
"CDT Chinese editors noted censorship of the following combinations: 'Sanlitun + lift ban on political parties', 'Sanlitun + protest', 'Sanlitun + warrior', 'Sitong Bridge + Sanlitun' …"
"CDT Chinese editors noted censorship of the following combinations: 'Sanlitun + lift ban on political parties', 'Sanlitun + protest', 'Sanlitun + warrior', 'Sitong Bridge + Sanlitun' …"
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Taiwanese Singer Zheng Zhihua’s Boarding Difficulties at Shenzhen Airport Spur Debate About Disability Access
"What Zheng Zhihua wanted was dignity, but some people tacitly accept a lack of dignity in their own lives, and by extension, they don’t feel that others are deserving of dignity, either!"
"What Zheng Zhihua wanted was dignity, but some people tacitly accept a lack of dignity in their own lives, and by extension, they don’t feel that others are deserving of dignity, either!"
Taiwanese Singer Zheng Zhihua’s Boarding Difficulties at Shenzhen Airport Spur Debate About Disability Access in China
Taiwanese singer Zheng Zhihua’s complaint about a difficult experience boarding a flight at Shenzhen’s main airport has spurred heated online debate about barrier-free access for disabled people in Ch...
chinadigitaltimes.net
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Taiwanese Singer Zheng Zhihua’s Boarding Difficulties at Shenzhen Airport Spur Debate About Disability Access
"What Zheng Zhihua wanted was dignity, but some people tacitly accept a lack of dignity in their own lives, and by extension, they don’t feel that others are deserving of dignity, either!"
"What Zheng Zhihua wanted was dignity, but some people tacitly accept a lack of dignity in their own lives, and by extension, they don’t feel that others are deserving of dignity, either!"
Beijing Banner Protester: "Establish a New China That is Free, Humane, and Governed by Rule of Law"
"CDT Chinese editors noted censorship of the following combinations: 'Sanlitun + lift ban on political parties', 'Sanlitun + protest', 'Sanlitun + warrior', 'Sitong Bridge + Sanlitun' …"
"CDT Chinese editors noted censorship of the following combinations: 'Sanlitun + lift ban on political parties', 'Sanlitun + protest', 'Sanlitun + warrior', 'Sitong Bridge + Sanlitun' …"
Beijing Banner Protester: "Establish a New China That is Free, Humane, and Governed by Rule of Law"
The image above shows a one-man protest that reportedly took place at the high-end Taikoo Li Sanlitun mall (formerly Sanlitun Village) in Beijing on October 25, shortly after the end of the Party’s Fo...
chinadigitaltimes.net
November 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Beijing Banner Protester: "Establish a New China That is Free, Humane, and Governed by Rule of Law"
"CDT Chinese editors noted censorship of the following combinations: 'Sanlitun + lift ban on political parties', 'Sanlitun + protest', 'Sanlitun + warrior', 'Sitong Bridge + Sanlitun' …"
"CDT Chinese editors noted censorship of the following combinations: 'Sanlitun + lift ban on political parties', 'Sanlitun + protest', 'Sanlitun + warrior', 'Sitong Bridge + Sanlitun' …"
Taiwanese Singer Zheng Zhihua’s Boarding Difficulties at Shenzhen Airport Spur Debate About Disability Access
"What Zheng Zhihua wanted was dignity, but some people tacitly accept a lack of dignity in their own lives, and by extension, they don’t feel that others are deserving of dignity, either!"
"What Zheng Zhihua wanted was dignity, but some people tacitly accept a lack of dignity in their own lives, and by extension, they don’t feel that others are deserving of dignity, either!"
Taiwanese Singer Zheng Zhihua’s Boarding Difficulties at Shenzhen Airport Spur Debate About Disability Access in China
Taiwanese singer Zheng Zhihua’s complaint about a difficult experience boarding a flight at Shenzhen’s main airport has spurred heated online debate about barrier-free access for disabled people in Ch...
chinadigitaltimes.net
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Taiwanese Singer Zheng Zhihua’s Boarding Difficulties at Shenzhen Airport Spur Debate About Disability Access
"What Zheng Zhihua wanted was dignity, but some people tacitly accept a lack of dignity in their own lives, and by extension, they don’t feel that others are deserving of dignity, either!"
"What Zheng Zhihua wanted was dignity, but some people tacitly accept a lack of dignity in their own lives, and by extension, they don’t feel that others are deserving of dignity, either!"
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More on the recent CAC campaign against "negative energy" online:
Translations: As CAC Tackles “Malicious” Negativity Online, Popular Influencers Zhang Xuefeng, Hu Chenfeng, Lan Zhanfei Hit With Bans
Amid a new two-month “Clear and Bright” campaign by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) to clean up internet content that “maliciously incites” polarization, pessimism, anxiety, and other neg...
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November 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
More on the recent CAC campaign against "negative energy" online:
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A CDT Chinese post mentioned in the China Brief article, about online backlash to a 2022 China Youth League photo collage celebrating PRC history, in which not a single woman was included:
【翻车现场】……你没事吧？六张图没有一个女性身影是不是事实？
@共青团中央 和@北京晚报 两家官媒发长微博炮轰“极端女权”，措辞激烈，分别打出“岂任“女拳”兴风作浪肆意播毒！挥舞大棒的假女权是时候管管了”、“极端女权已成网络毒瘤”等“大字报”，指责女权是“生意”、“敛财”、“制造对立”、“歪门邪道”，并呼吁严打。
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November 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A CDT Chinese post mentioned in the China Brief article, about online backlash to a 2022 China Youth League photo collage celebrating PRC history, in which not a single woman was included:
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"The PRC portrayed in official propaganda is positive, harmonious, and orderly. [...When societal] conflicts do appear, they are to be understood as isolated or exceptional cases, and are sometimes attributed to the infiltration of Western ideas."
November 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"The PRC portrayed in official propaganda is positive, harmonious, and orderly. [...When societal] conflicts do appear, they are to be understood as isolated or exceptional cases, and are sometimes attributed to the infiltration of Western ideas."
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China Brief – Beijing’s War on 'Negative Energy’
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Beijing’s War on ‘Negative Energy’
Executive Summary: The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has launched a new “clean and bright” campaign that redefines online frustration over youth unemployment, gender conflict, and social an...
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November 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
China Brief – Beijing’s War on 'Negative Energy’
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Netizen Voices: Tencent's Positive Energy Algorithm Task Force and the Perils of "Information Cocoons"
"When the algorithm detects users whose positive energy is running low, it will automatically recharge them for free."
"When the algorithm detects users whose positive energy is running low, it will automatically recharge them for free."
Netizen Voices: Tencent's Positive Energy Algorithm Task Force and the Perils of "Information Cocoons"
This week, a report at IT Home described recent corporate initiatives in the fight to promote "positive energy" and suppress "malicious" negativity online. (As China Media Project explains, "’Positive...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Netizen Voices: Tencent's Positive Energy Algorithm Task Force and the Perils of "Information Cocoons"
"When the algorithm detects users whose positive energy is running low, it will automatically recharge them for free."
"When the algorithm detects users whose positive energy is running low, it will automatically recharge them for free."
China Brief – Beijing’s War on 'Negative Energy’
jamestown.org/program/beij...
jamestown.org/program/beij...
Beijing’s War on ‘Negative Energy’
Executive Summary: The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has launched a new “clean and bright” campaign that redefines online frustration over youth unemployment, gender conflict, and social an...
jamestown.org
November 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
China Brief – Beijing’s War on 'Negative Energy’
jamestown.org/program/beij...
jamestown.org/program/beij...
Netizen Voices: Tencent's Positive Energy Algorithm Task Force and the Perils of "Information Cocoons"
"When the algorithm detects users whose positive energy is running low, it will automatically recharge them for free."
"When the algorithm detects users whose positive energy is running low, it will automatically recharge them for free."
Netizen Voices: Tencent's Positive Energy Algorithm Task Force and the Perils of "Information Cocoons"
This week, a report at IT Home described recent corporate initiatives in the fight to promote "positive energy" and suppress "malicious" negativity online. (As China Media Project explains, "’Positive...
chinadigitaltimes.net
October 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Netizen Voices: Tencent's Positive Energy Algorithm Task Force and the Perils of "Information Cocoons"
"When the algorithm detects users whose positive energy is running low, it will automatically recharge them for free."
"When the algorithm detects users whose positive energy is running low, it will automatically recharge them for free."
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More CDT English coverage of the Shiyan hit-and-run:
CDT Quote of the Day: Local Media Excuses Failure to Report on Elementary School Vehicular Attack—“Our Hands Are Tied, Too”
Police and media silence after a car plowed into a large crowd of students and parents near an elementary school in the city of Shiyan, Hubei province, has angered many Chinese netizens. Video shared ...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
More CDT English coverage of the Shiyan hit-and-run:
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Archived Aquarius Era article, in Chinese:
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【404文库】水瓶纪元｜国产电动车撞向十堰重庆路小学，多名学生和家长死伤
不止一位家长称，被车辆撞击的重庆路小学学生，多属于一年级13班，其他班放学时间和事故时间错开。刘静等家长告诉水瓶纪元，事发时，一年级10班之后的几个班正在放学。10月22日当晚，刘静在读一年级的孩子的班主任逐一给家长们打电话，询问孩子是否到家。与此同时，刘静所在的家校联系群被设置为禁言状态。
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October 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Archived Aquarius Era article, in Chinese:
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"The report, now archived at China Digital Times, witnesses the frustration of residents in Shiyan at not being able to obtain reliable information about the incident from local news outlets, and pressure from the city authorities against individuals posting information online..."
October 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
"The report, now archived at China Digital Times, witnesses the frustration of residents in Shiyan at not being able to obtain reliable information about the incident from local news outlets, and pressure from the city authorities against individuals posting information online..."