On Saturday, Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden met in Lima, Peru on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. The meeting was their third in-person, and likely their ...

Teng Biao, born on August 2, 1973 in Jilin Province, is a human rights lawyer, activist, and former professor who is dedicated to exposing China’s human rights abuses and fighting against its ...

11月15日，据央视新闻发布的一段视频显示，习近平在和秘鲁总统博鲁阿尔特进行会谈时，他说“这是我第三次访问秘鲁.....我强烈感受到秘鲁人民对中国人民的友好情谊”，但却误将“秘鲁(bì lǔ)”读成了“ (mì lǔ)”。

“只是过渡一下”，是施工方的单方说辞，考虑到一个“牛皮纸”井盖才160元，远低于正常价格，很难不让人怀疑，他们就是要偷工减料，从而榨取更多利润。若真只是用来过渡，为何不在井盖周边设置安全提示，为何媒体一介入，合格井盖立即就有货了？

The Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is an online glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. Is the Internet acting as a “safety valve” to ...

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 ...

Columnist and pop-psychologist Tang Yinghong employs his wide-ranging knowledge—and his public WeChat account—to analyze a host of social phenomenon in China: the mass appeal of the pollution ...

在广东珠海航展开幕前夕，一名62岁的樊姓男子于11日晚驾驶越野车闯入珠海体育中心的内部道路，对正在健身的人群进行无差别的冲撞、碾压......这起蓄意驾车撞人事件造成了近年来罕见的重大伤亡，据官方通报称，总共有35人死亡43人受伤。而在尚未问讯嫌犯的 ...

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.

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 ...

Born on September 25, 1975, Ye Haiyan is a social worker and women's and gender rights activist. Also known as Hooligan Sparrow (流氓燕), Ye has since 2005 worked to raise awareness of the ...