News 1 December 2020 China’s fugitive writers find a home online Matters wants to be free from the trolling, doxxing, and personal attacks that have come to dominate Chinese forums amid rising nationalism and censorship.
News 24 November 2020 After the meteoric growth of Chinese tech, Beijing considers putting on the brakes Alibaba and others were once China’s crown jewels. Now, their size is cause for discomfort in Beijing.
Ideas 23 November 2020 Returning to China’s walled garden To combat the spread of Covid-19, authorities are increasingly narrowing the divide between a person’s offline and online selves.
Feature 18 November 2020 Blockchain chickens and computer vision pigs Rest of World spoke with Xiaowei Wang, author of a new book about how technology is transforming rural China.
Longreads 17 November 2020 The cost of convenience South Korea’s Coupang promised to make e-commerce lightning fast. A Covid-19 outbreak at one of its warehouses shows that its workers paid the price.
News 16 November 2020 Small debts, big problems Behind the 11th-hour suspension of fintech giant Ant Group’s IPO is a worry that unregulated microlending is a risk to the Chinese financial system.
News 11 November 2020 Shop till you drop On Singles Day, China’s biggest shopping holiday, delivery workers have been striking. E-commerce giants have little incentive to change.
News 26 October 2020 Control, Alter, Delete Hong Kong activists and academics are hurrying to digitize historical records and artifacts under threat from creeping censorship.
News 22 October 2020 Kicked off Weibo? Here’s what happens next. Thousands of Weibo accounts have been deleted as China’s government cracks down on free speech.
Longreads 6 October 2020 Returning the gaze Uighurs in exile are fighting back against China’s techno-authoritarianism to locate their relatives who have been disappeared.
