Video Shows Chinese Firefighters Pulling Survivor From Rubble After Tianjin Blast
The death toll from the massive explosion that rocked the Chinese port city on Wednesday has climbed to 104, with at least 720 others reported injured.
In Photos: The Aftermath of the Massive Explosion in the Chinese City of Tianjin
A series of images captured immediately after the huge blast show exhausted firefighters and heaps of charred vehicles and shipping containers.
No Joke: China Announces Crackdown on Internet Parody Accounts
The Chinese government announced new rules Wednesday that will require citizens to use their real names and personal information when registering online.
China's Laissez-Faire Internet Censoring
It's really not that hard for Chinese internet users to get past the "Great Firewall" of web censorship. But that doesn't mean they bother.
Starting Online Rumors in China Can Get You 3 Years in Prison
If a false post is viewed more than 5,000 times—or forwarded 500 times—then it's jail time.
The Mood of the Chinese Internet Lights Up the Facade of Beijing's Water Cube
It's not often that ancient Chinese texts about divining the future and social media meet.
Expressing Emotions As A Monumental Light Display
Jennifer Wen Ma's Nature and Man in Rhapsody of Light at the Water Cube displays the Chinese people's collective mood.
Why Is China's Internet Turning to Obama To Solve a Decades-Old Poisoning Mystery?
Zhu Ling's story begins with her poisoning in 1995, and ends with the Boston bombing, high-ranking government officials, and calls for someone's head.
'Southern Weekly' and the Limits of Censorship in China
How a New Year's editorial in China's most liberal newspaper set off the Department of Propaganda, provoked many of the nation's journalists to strike, and laid bare the limits of China's control of the press.
Stalking China's Weibo Censors: An Interview with Chi-Chu Tschang
In America, we tend to refer to Sina Weibo as China’s “Twitter-like microblog," but that doesn't quite do it justice. It has 300 million users, more than twice the amount of Twitter itself, and because it's in Chinese, each nugget of 140 characters...
Hot Links: Robots Defeat Fire and Jungle, Groupon Fails, 90s Facebook
The robots are here to save us now: A new Navy training ground has "tracked robots fighting fires and surviving jungles":http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/navy-robot-gym/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=twitterclickthru. If...
'Three Color Cat' and More: The List of Blocked Weibo Terms Contains Some Real Head-Scratchers
Dissenting netizens in China have to move fast in order to keep up with the government’s ever-changing list of blocked search terms on Weibo. A new Tumblr page "is looking to help":http://blockedonweibo.tumblr.com/post/19236495869/378-words-that-are...