Lingua Sinica Newsletter, 30 May - Lingua Sinica
News, analysis, and commentary on Chinese-language media from the PRC and beyond.| linguasinica.substack.com
In a fitting illustration last week of the Chinese leadership’s unrelenting efforts to manipulate collective memory, an online essay with a shocking revelation about the wholesale disappearance of Chinese internet content spanning the 2000s was deleted by content monitors. But the post, quickly archived and shared, reverberated in platforms beyond PRC-managed cyberspace.| China Media Project
News, analysis, and commentary on Chinese-language media from the PRC and beyond.| linguasinica.substack.com
In a post to China’s popular WeChat platform last week, one writer bemoaned the shocking loss of nearly a full decade of information from the early days of the country’s domestic internet. Within hours the writer's reflections had vanished too.| China Media Project
