Education Gap Remains After Hukou, Gaokao Reforms
As a new school year begins, China’s education gap remains sizable despite recent reform packages aimed at making access more equitable. As promised following last year’s Third Plenum, changes to...
View ArticleYong Zhao on Education and Authoritarianism in China
At The New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow spoke with Yong Zhao, professor of education at the University of Oregon, about his new book, Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon: Why China Has the Best (and...
View ArticleCollege Admissions Questioned After Bribery Case
After being arrested in 2013 for alleged involvement in an embezzlement scandal, former Renmin University head of admissions Cai Rongsheng confessed to accepting over 23 million yuan in bribes between...
View ArticleParents Protest College Admission Reforms
Parents angered over proposed changes to the admissions standards for universities, which they fear will favor students from outside their geographic region, have taken to the streets in protest in...
View ArticleChina Uses Technology and Law to Fight Cheating
More than nine million high school students sat China’s grueling national college entrance exam, known as gaokao, this week. The exam, which determines a student’s academic future and subsequent job...
View ArticleCollege Rejection Threat Highlights Social Credit
The future development of China’s emerging Social Credit System has been the subject of much speculation, but has already had tangible consequences for millions of people blacklisted from spending on...
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Minitrue: Control Reports on Zhejiang Gaokao Results
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. All...
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Minireview: 2018 in Censorship (Oct-Dec)
This series is a recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in 2018, this small fraction of which were then leaked and distributed online. The names of some issuing...
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Minitrue: Shandong Village Relocations, Exam Score Theft
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source....
View ArticleResearchers Voice Rights Concerns Over Emotion Recognition Technology
Emotion recognition technology is being marketed globally as the next frontier of facial recognition, with proponents claiming it particularly well-suited for two starkly different environments:...
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Minitrue: Do Not Report on the Zhou _ _ (aka Xianzi) Lawsuit; Caution on...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media and internet companies by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to...
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Campus Lockdowns, Exam Delays, Other Frustrations for Chinese Students
The past weekend has brought more bad news for many Chinese students who have found themselves at the whim of the government’s aggressive and sustained zero-COVID policies. On Saturday, Shanghai...
View ArticleLi Wenliang’s Wailing Wall, June 2022: “Even when we’re getting rained on, we...
Two years and four months after whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang’s death from COVID-19, the comments section under his last Weibo post, which has become known as “China’s Wailing Wall,” continues to serve...
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A Meme Too Far? Weibo Bans Content about Imaginary University
Less than a month after the conclusion of China’s hypercompetitive annual university entrance examination (“gaokao”), a satirical meme about an imaginary university has been banned on Weibo. The meme...
View ArticleCensors Take Down Discussion of Last Mongolian-language College Entrance Exams
The Douban comment was not inflammatory. In fact, it didn’t even betray an overt opinion. But for censors, it was too much. “A note for posterity: this will be Inner Mongolia’s last Mongolian-language...
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