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2026 China Digital Times 【CDT Weekly】Issue 257: The Spring Festival Gala Not Only Lacks Festive Spirit, It’s Lost Its Human Touch

The China Digital Times regularly carries a ‘hit parade’ of the latest articles erased by Chinese censors. Censorship in China is mostly post-publication — intimidating journalists and editors afterwards so that they be more self-disciplined in the future. And not … Continue reading

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2026: Radio Free Asia — PRC Clergy Travel Restrictions

Radio Free Asia report. RFA is still around. It was largely shutdown in 2025 in the midst of Musk’s DOGE vandalism. Now RFA is coming back to a limited extend in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Burmese. Details at ChatGPT5 search … Continue reading

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2023: Chinese Tourists Questioned, Visas Cancelled, PRC Protests, Tour Guide Boasts

Saw this on Twitter today: a story about a car with a Chinese tour guide and four Chinese tourists being stopped as they attempted to enter Russia on their visas. They were interrogated for four hours and their visas were … Continue reading

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1999: Jonathan Spence and Yu Ying-shih on Chinese Intellectuals’ Early 20th Century Journey

The article translated below gives a wonderful big picture overview of China in the mind of China and of the West surrounding the megaquestion of how Chinese wanted their country to move forward. Many observations Jonathan Spence and Yu Ying-shih … Continue reading

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2003: Kunming City Religious Affairs Bureau 2003 Report to the Kunming City People’s Congress on Religious Affairs Enforcement Work and Problems

Here is a translation I did when I worked at the U.S. Consulate General in Chengdu after a visit to Kunming. I found this document on a government website and added some photos I took during the Kuming trip. Report … Continue reading

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2018: Net Report: Some Chinese Christians in Henan and Anhui Provinces Forced to Renounce Their Religious Faith

“Exposed on the Internet: Local Authorities Forcing People in Henan and Anhui Provinces to Renounce Their Religious Faith”, the Voice of America (VOA) Chinese-language service reported on August 24.  According to the report, a Chinese-American Christian minister Liu Yi tweeted … Continue reading

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