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Residents Protest Garbage Incinerator in Guangdong (Updated with Videos)
Residents of Panyu, Guangdong, are protesting plans to build a garbage incinerator in their city, and the actions are being tweeted live at the hashtag #pylj. @ellachou is translating many of the...
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Feng Zhenghu: Changing China from Terminal 1
This story (with video) was filed by CBS News Beijing producer Steven Jiang: He’s been compared to the Tom Hanks character in “The Terminal” by news media the world over, but Feng Zhenghu had never...
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Kaifu Lee (李开复) on Circumventing the Great Firewall
Kaifu Lee (李开复) was the founding president of Google China, serving from July 2005 until September 4, 2009. He is currently the CEO of Innovation Works. His Twitter account had 733,906 followers at the...
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CN4Iran – The Chinese Inspired by the People of Iran
CNN iReport: During today’s protests in Iran, as always, Twitter saw a surge of tweets from protests in Iran giving updates on the latest developments and using Twitter for coordination purposes....
View ArticleCui Weiping Tweets Elite Views On Liu Xiaobo
From Global Voices: Charter 08 has been around for just over a year, reportedly gathered more than 10,000 signatures, and Liu Xiaobo, one of its founders, was sentenced to eleven years in prison on...
View Article“It’s Not Google that’s Withdrawing from China; It’s China that’s Withdrawing...
The twittersphere has exploded with the news of Google’s potential exit from the China market. CDT has translated selected tweets. Read all tweets at #Googlecn - @qhgy RT @Lyooooo: If Google leaves I...
View ArticleTweets of the Day: “I Never Imagined a Day Without Google”
Below are CDT translations of a few additional Chinese language tweets about Google. More translations are here. See all tweets on the subject at #GoogleCN - @qhgy: Debasement is the password of Baidu;...
View ArticleLatest Directive from the Ministry of Truth, and Tweet of the Day
The Chinese blog Ministry of Truth has compiled a number of recent leaked orders issued by various propaganda departments over news reporting of recent events. Below is today’s directive, translated by...
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Tweets from the Morning of May 35th
ChinaGeeks has translated selected tweets about the 21st anniversary of June 4th. The date “June 4th” or 64 has long been a taboo word on all Chinese websites and search engines. However, if one...
View ArticleGoogle vs. China: Search Giant Blinks (Updated)
CNN Money has the latest in the ongoing saga of Google in China: Google slightly altered its business strategy in China late Monday in an attempt to balance the company’s desire to keep its Chinese...
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Pu Zhiqiang Takes on His Police Interrogator, and Tweets It
Recently, prominent human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang had a verbal exchange with Dong Yansheng, deputy director of Fengtai Section of Domestic Security Department of Beijing Public Security Bureau, when...
View ArticleRemarkable Quotes from the Fifty Cent Party: Anti-Jasmine Revolution Tweets
Since the first tweet calling for “Jasmine Revolution” protests went viral on the Chinese Internet, the Chinese state machine has gone into overdrive to prevent this imagined uprising. Among other...
View ArticleDrinking Tea and Discussing the Jasmine Revolution: A Twitter Report
Leira Hua tweets on Feb. 25, about drinking tea with national security officers. The officers, Hua writes, are concerned with the retweet of a call to stroll and smile in Shanghai’s People’s Square,...
View Article@StonyWang: Forced to Drink Jasmine Tea
Stony Wang is a blogger based in Shanghai. The following is a collection of his tweets from February 25, detailing his experience “drinking tea” after the calls for a Jasmine Revolution circulated in...
View ArticleTweets from Ai Weiwei: “Are You a Human Being if You Are Not ‘Anti-China’?”
A Chinese blog called Love Ai Weiwei has posted translations of a series of tweets posted by Ai Weiwei between June 2009 and July 2010: 艾未未微博选登（2009.6—2010.7）Ai Weiwei（ @aiww ） Tweet Quotes 1 （June...
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