我们原以为石头终将会开花，待到那一天，我们可以重新把酒言欢，一醉方休。但残酷的真相是，很多朋友早已离开，湮没于尘土，而如今，老华也等不到那一天了。今天的讣告，应该是老华朋友圈的最后一条：家父华春辉已于近日去世，特此公告，感谢诸位朋友昔日陪伴关照，祝各 ...

On WeChat last weekend, "Fatty Zhao, scholar of Song Dynasty history" reflected on a recent fire at a Shandong university. The students’ escape route was blocked by facial recognition turnstiles ...

A predictive policing tool described as a “Crowd Mood Monitoring and Early Warning System,” on display at the recent Zhuhai ...

The Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is an online glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. Is the Internet acting as a “safety valve” to ...

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 ...

Columnist and pop-psychologist Tang Yinghong employs his wide-ranging knowledge—and his public WeChat account—to analyze a host of social phenomenon in China: the mass appeal of the pollution ...

今年年初，44岁的智残女春玲突然在家中产下一名女婴。这是一次始料未及的生产，智残女怀孕数月，朝夕相处的家人却毫无察觉。女婴身世成迷，警方介入后发现，意外生产背后，实际上指向一起合谋且持续已久的性侵案。

两名外省警员，带着警具、开着警车在江苏浙江两省「打游击」，最后盯上一位苏州企业家准备带回搞钱。岂料车行至浙江德清境内，企业家跳车报警，遂被浙江方面搭救，最终两警被判滥用职权罪成《 「远洋捕捞」被抓的警员，究竟是哪个省的？ 》 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A self-deprecating description of individual investors who re-invest in the stock market after initial losses; also used to address youth disillusionment and endemic government corruption.