Hong Kong's leading press union faces a coordinated online assault after its chairperson exposes a government tax campaign targeting independent journalists. lingua-sinica.org/trolls-targe...
As China’s top leader arrived in North Korea for his first visit since 2019, there was very little to read in the Party-run press—but much more to be unpacked.
chinamediaproject.org/2026/06/11/i...
Our latest newsletter is out on the Lingua Sinica Substack. | Reading Xi's Pyongyang Visit (with Havel), China's hashtag #MeToo Voice Silenced (again), and Taiwan's Structural Media Challenges and much more! linguasinica.substack.com/p/reading-xi...
In Chongqing this week, police clashed with animal rights protesters while state media lit up the sky for an international media forum hosted by the country’s largest state-run media conglomerate. chinamediaproject.org/2026/06/10/p...
When China’s flagship official newspaper introduces a dating app and starts hosting singles mixers for troops and government workers, you know the demographic issue has entered a new phase.
Taiwan’s public broadcaster is caught in a political double bind: its sitting board chair has been expelled from parliament, and the opposition is blocking a replacement.
At Lingua Sinica, @daliaparete.bsky.social interviews Emeka Umejei about his new book on PRC media partnerships in Africa and the training programs that China conducts for local journalists, enlarging its footprint and taking over space abandoned by Western media organizations.
Germany is often held up as a model press freedom environment in Europe. But its Chinese-language media landscape tells a more complicated story — one shaped by economic ties, diaspora politics, and a growing PRC presence. Read our latest country profile: lingua-sinica.org/country-prof...
The territory's leading press union faces a coordinated online assault after its chairperson exposes a government tax campaign targeting independent journalists.
As China's top leader arrived in North Korea for his first visit since 2019, there was very little to read in the Party-run press — but much more to be unpacked.
"If you spoke Mongolian on the bus, people called it 'bird language.' You did not belong to mainstream society." Full interview with Soyonbo Borjgin on erasure, resistance, and what changed in the media space in Southern Mongolia (Inner Mongolia). lingua-sinica.org/erasure-and-...
These stories and more, including animal rights protests in Chongqing ahead of what officials hoped would be a marquee global media event.
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In Chongqing this week, police clashed with animal rights protesters while state media lit up the sky for an international media forum hosted by the country's largest state-run media conglomerate.
chinamediaproject.org
When China's flagship official newspaper introduces a dating app and starts hosting singles mixers for troops and government workers, you know the demographic issue has entered a new phase.
Taiwan's public broadcaster is caught in a political double bind: its sitting board chair has been expelled from parliament, and the opposition is blocking a replacement.
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African journalists flock to Chinese training programs expecting to learn their craft. What they get instead is sightseeing, subtle pressure — and a debt of gratitude, says author Emeka Umejei.
Germany ranks among the world's stronger press freedom environments, and its Chinese-language media landscape reflects that openness, encompassing newspapers with documented ties to party-state entiti...
All Chinese live today with the information legacy of Tiananmen. We look back at the brief moment before the crackdown when China's press stood with those demanding change. linguasinica.substack.com/p/how-a-mass...
All Chinese live today with the information legacy of Tiananmen. We look back at the brief moment before the crackdown when China's press stood with those demanding change.
