CDT has just released our latest eBook, an updated and improved edition of “Decoding the Chinese Internet: A Glossary of Political Slang.” To mark the occasion, we would like to test our readers’ ...

As a person immersed in China writing for several years, I've grown accustomed to the particular nomenclature which comes with the field. There's “China's rise,” of course. “Getting old before they ...

If there's a story to be told about the Internet's trajectory over the last few years, it's the diminishing distinction between on- and offline reality. At least in the West, our digital and physical ...

Happy New Year from China Digital Times! As we wait to see what subversive slang will become part of the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon in 2016, test your knowledge of the creative turns of phrase used by ...