In December 2023, we published a revised edition of the Lexicon as an eBook, which includes updated entries for 104 of the most salient terms we have collected over the past 20 years. Please ...

CDT编辑注： 朱令铊中毒事件是发生于1994至1995年的一宗案件。1994年11月底，就读于清华大学化学系的本科生朱令（本名朱令令）出现铊中毒症状，最后得助于互联网才得到确诊和救治，但留下永久后遗症，此后几十年生活无法自理，直到2023年逝世，一直依靠父母照顾。1995年5月，北京警方对朱令案进行调查，但相关证据丢失。警方传唤了嫌疑人孙维（朱令的同班同学），但未将其逮捕。朱令案于1998年结案 ...

这天上午，余华英拐卖儿童案（以下简称余华英案）在贵州省高级人民法院重审二审开庭。在这场全国瞩目的庭审现场外，寻亲父母们汇聚于此，比起关注余华英案的结果，他们还有个更重要的目的——在媒体记者的新闻直播间举牌，期盼自己的寻亲信息被传播得更广更远。

有法律界人士认为，如何定义“淫秽”，并不单单是一个法律问题，还涉及道德、文化、社会、心理等因素。色情淫秽和言论自由之间存在张力，其中的界限值得探究.....虽然这样的抓捕是有法律依据的，但是，当它与公众的朴素情感相抵触，是不是必须调整了?最后我想说， ...

Young, nationalistic netizen who attacks the social media accounts of people perceived to have slighted China, typically as part of a large "expedition" across the Great Firewall to Facebook.

Reference to Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei (Ài Wèiwei 艾未未). The use of this code lead to the phrase "love the future" being blocked from Weibo search results around June-August 2011.

This Communist Party slogan was heavily used during the Cultural Revolution, an era in which citizens were incentivized to spy on and even falsely accuse family and neighbors of being disloyal to ...

Code name for Zhou Yongkang, former public security chief and close ally of fallen Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai; a popular brand of instant noodles. The kāng 康 in the brand name is the ...

Code for June 4, 1989, the date of the crackdown on pro-democracy protests around Tiananmen Square. (The military operation began late on the night of June 3.) Ordinarily the event is referred to ...

Ermeiyaoxiaodao (@二枚腰小道): GFW (Great Firewall of China) has blocked all Google services, including Google Scholar, which is essential to research. If you think this is unacceptable, we ...

Coded support for the Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

Vague descriptor that is often used as code for towing the Party line. “Positive energy” was meme-ified in China during the 2010 trial of Song Shanmu, the founder of a well-known vocational ...