Young Boys Found Dead in Guizhou Shack
Chinese state media report five children have died after being found suffocated in Guizhou Province. This comes amid concerns for child safety after five homeless boys were found dead inside a garbage...
View ArticleTibet Landslide Rescue Work Suspended
Rescue efforts have been halted at a mine near Lhasa due to fears that fresh landslides might add to the toll from Friday’s disaster. 36 bodies have been recovered, and little hope remains of any...
View ArticleTrapped Miners Rescued After Almost 60 Hours
In China’s latest mining accident, three miners were killed in a flooded mine in Guizhou while three others were rescued after two and a half days underground. From AP: Xinhua News Agency says they...
View ArticleSensitive Words: Seven Don’t Mentions and More
As of May 10, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Migrant Worker’s Death: 22-year-old Yuan Liya, who came to Beijing from Anhui...
View ArticleChina’s Last Gunslingers
A slideshow in National Geographic depicts life in a Miao village in Guizhou which carries on a tradition of gun ownership and use, a rarity in China. From the introduction: The population of Biasha is...
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Ministry of Truth: 70 Accuse Cui Yadong of Graft
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and bloggers often refer to these instructions as...
View ArticleBlast in Illegal Gambling Hall Kills 14
An explosion at an illegal gambling hall in Guizhou Province has killed 14 people, according to AP: The blast struck at around 2:30 p.m. outside the city of Kaili in the poor southern province of...
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Minitrue: Bus Fire, Father’s Suicide, Facebook
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. (1)...
View ArticleSensitive: Guo Yushan Picks Quarrels, HK, More
As of October 15, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Guo Yushan: A scholar and reformer living in Beijing, Guo was detained last week on...
View ArticleGuizhou Orders Cameras in University Classrooms
Caixin’s Zhou Dongxu reports on plans for comprehensive video surveillance of classes at Guizhou universities. The outward aim is to uphold teaching standards, but skeptics have questioned both the...
View ArticleSensitive Words: Direct Appeal to Xi in Guizhou
Sensitive Words highlights keywords that are blocked from Sina Weibo search results. CDT independently tests the keywords before posting them, but some searches later become accessible again. We...
View ArticleWeibo User Claims Data Theft, Extortion by iCloud Support
On Monday, Weibo user MeiguoWangshi1999 posted a detailed account of alleged data theft and extortion by a worker on Apple’s official technical support hotline after they called for help with the...
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Minitrue: Unified Government Notice on Deadly Guizhou Bus Crash
The following censorship instructions, issued by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. CDT Chinese...
View ArticleHunger Stalks Guiyang After Snap Lockdown
Hunger is becoming a common side-effect of China’s often chaotic lockdowns. During a citywide pandemic lockdown in Xi’an, residents went hungry as government propagandists cheered “noodles helping...
View ArticleBus Crash Kills 27 in Late-night Transit to Remote Quarantine Facility
27 people died after a bus transporting close contacts of coronavirus patients crashed outside of Guiyang at 2:40 a.m. on Sunday. The close contacts were being shipped to a remote county 155 miles...
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Li Wenliang’s Wailing Wall, September 2022: “How to Voice This Desolation?”
Two years and four months after whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang’s death from COVID-19, the “Wailing Wall” that emerged in the comments under his last Weibo post continues to serve as a repository for the...
View ArticleLocal Police Identified as Assailants of Journalist in Guizhou
The culprits behind the beating of a reporter in Guizhou that scandalized China have been identified: a local vice-police chief and two auxiliary officers perpetrated the assault. On May 30, Jimu...
View ArticleIs Chasing Deadbeat Debtors “Picking Quarrels”?
Provincial prosecutors in Guizhou have set up a special investigative team to look into the case of a female entrepreneur who, along with members of her legal team, was detained and accused of “picking...
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