As 2025 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding ...

Code for June 4, 1989, the date of the crackdown on pro-democracy protests around Tiananmen Square. (The military operation began late on the night of June 3.) Ordinarily the event is referred to as ...

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 Youku and ...

Code name for Zhou Yongkang, former public security chief and close ally of fallen Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai; a popular brand of instant noodles. The kāng 康 in the brand name is the same as ...

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 ...

As 2025 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding ...

Ongoing Sino-Japanese diplomatic tensions—touched off last month by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments on Japan’s willingness to defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack—continue ...

上海译文出版社在公告中提到，重版书销量明显下滑，作为出版基本盘的读者需求正在萎缩，并宣布取消传统发行部，转向内容运营。有着文青、理想主义者标签的“出版社打工人”这个身份，逐渐在社交平台上变得常见。

国企的“准行政”性质在当前的分配格局下有巨大的现实优势，是不争的事实。将近两倍的收入差距，驱动了“体制内近亲繁殖”，也驱动了体制外的草根做题家。前者手握实实在在的准入权，后者也有“唯才是举”、“公平正义”的大旗，是权力VS舆论道德高地的博弈。

2025年的最后一天，德黑兰街头没有新年的喜庆。火焰在街道上燃烧，不是庆祝的篝火，而是民众怒火的象征。从购物中心到大学校园，从古老巴扎到居民区，无数普通人走上街头，喊出积压了数十年的心声。