College Daily fires back at the New Yorker, accusing it of bias and fabrication
On Monday, the New Yorker published an unflattering profile of College Daily, a digital Chinese-language publication that boasts a large readership…
Beijing blames protests on Hong Kong ‘Gang of Four’
Move over, Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen. There’s a new Gang of Four in town. The South China Morning Post reports: China’s…
Chinese TV show ‘A Little Reunion’ applauded for depicting workplace sexual harassment
Workplace sexual harassment is widespread in China, with surveys finding that nearly 40 percent of Chinese women have experienced some form…
College Daily: Misleading Chinese students in the U.S. since 2014
College Daily (北美留学生日报 běiměi liúxuéshēng rìbào) is a Chinese-language website aimed at Chinese students…
A Kuaishou vlogger tried to get an old Russian man to drink himself to death
A Chinese video blogger based in Russia, who has more than 750,000 followers on the short-video platform Kuaishou, is being heavily criticized for…
Twitter and Facebook ban accounts pushing disinformation from Beijing
China’s state media agencies have been buying large quantities of ads and promoted posts on Facebook and Twitter for years. But their budget…
Weekly Briefing: A million-strong protest in Hong Kong; Twitter and Facebook accuse China of disinformation; bye bye, Baidu
Hello, readers! The SupChina Weekly Briefing details the most important China news from the past…
‘Terrorism’: Beijing issues white paper defending Uyghur internment camps
In July, facing growing international pressure about the internment camps that are imprisoning more than a million Uyghurs, the Chinese government released a
Chinese web censorship works. Unfortunately, it’s never going away
While protests continue in Hong Kong, the government on the Chinese mainland has been increasingly aggressive in its propaganda, painting the demonstrators…
Mandopop Month: AKB48 SH’s wide-eyed trip into stardom
The Friday Song column this month turns its focus to Mandopop, which technically refers to all Mandarin-language pop music, but these days more often…
Hong Kong artist Jackson Wang pulls out of 88Rising festival after expressing support for Beijing
As demonstrations in Hong Kong intensify, the entertainment world is increasingly feeling the heat. Today, news came that Jackson Wang 王嘉尔, a Hong…
Baidu’s free-fall continues: No longer Top 5 among Chinese internet companies
Faking search results, losing public trust, antagonizing critics, etc. — it’s all contributed to…
No foreign black hands, say source: Hong Kong police officers
As Sophia Yan and Roland Oliphant of The Telegraph reports, three senior Hong Kong…
Han Han’s racing film ‘Pegasus’ is the best Chinese movie of 2019 (so far)
For his third outing as a director, Han Han returns to his roots as a former race car driver to sculpt a…
The People’s Daily wants to censor Amazon
Social media outrage in China, stoked by state media, has forced a handful of…
