This Communist Party slogan was heavily used during the Cultural Revolution, an era in which citizens were incentivized to spy on and even falsely accuse family and neighbors of being disloyal to ...

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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.

Virtual idol created by the Communist Youth League. The anime-style idols Jiang Shanjiao (江山娇, "Lovable Country") and her "younger brother" Hong Qiman (红旗漫 "Fluttering Red Flag ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

现在确实比事发一个多小时好了很多，当时可以说是生不如死，但这两天的后遗症也开始显现，眼睛干涩肿痛，甚至头皮、脖子、手都会疼。头发上仍残留有大量辣椒水，因为头发上很多，一直没有办法去处理，尽管有人提醒这几天不要洗澡，担心洗澡会导致辣椒水流遍全身，不过昨 ...

这段影片在中国各大社交媒体上疯传。很快，原视频就被微信删除，“四月之声”亦被微博等社交媒体屏蔽。但网民们并没有屈服，他们用自己的微信公众号、微博不断转发这则视频，之后，被删、炸号，再之后，再转发、再被删、再炸号。就这样，《四月之声》依靠这种接力的方式，在短短几天里触及到了中国各个年龄和圈层的人。