China Media Project

From the early 2000s through to the outset of the 2010s, the principle of “supervision by public opinion” (舆论监督), or yulun jiandu, gave more enterprising journalists cover to pursue critical reporting — even investigative reporting — with the idea that media reporting could push forward social and institutional progress. In China’s

Nearly two decades ago, Li Cuili, a shopkeeper from Lishi Village, a small community in rural Henan province surrounded by fields of vegetables, cleared the shelves of her general store of liquor and other top-selling goods and stocked them with books. Li made the decision, she later told 

In a rare post yesterday, a user on China’s WeChat platform offered a thoughtful — and cutting — assessment of the state of the country’s news environment. Responding to a recent wave of notices from newspapers about pending closures, the essay countered the idea that this trend stems from the growing irrelevance of traditional print media in an era defined by digital me...

Early Sunday morning, as China’s national anthem, “March of the Volunteers,” blared across the granite plaza of Longhua Martyrs Cemetery in Shanghai,

Set in a fictional imperial Chinese dynasty called the Da Yin, the Chinese web drama Pursuit of Jade (逐玉) has been a genuine streaming event in China and a runaway success elsewhere in the region. In Taiwan, where it has been dubbed by some media as the first true cultural phenomenon to emerge from China in 2026, it has