# Events 事件

-   2018-02 <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/world/asia/china-xi-jinping.html>
-   2018-02 <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/at-least-120000-muslim-uighurs-held-in-chinese-re-education-camps-report>
-   2018-01 <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/19/outspoken-chinese-human-rights-lawyer-yu-wensheng-arrested>
-   2018-01 <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-politics/hong-kong-activist-banned-from-by-election-in-what-pro-democracy-party-calls-payback-idUSKBN1FG06P>
-   2018-01 <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/world/asia/china-church-dynamite.html>
-   2018-01 <http://uk.businessinsider.com/china-marriott-tweets-censorship-2018-1?r=US&IR=T> Marriott lists Taiwan as country in the website
-   2018-01 <http://chuangcn.org/2018/01/the-mastermind/>
-   2017-12 <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/25/world/asia/china-wu-gan-sentence.html>
-   2017-11 <https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/7a7hf9/the_worlds_largest_academic_publisher_blocks/> Springer nature pulls sensitive articles. TODO article list.
-   2017-09 <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/business/china-whatsapp-blocked.html>
-   2017-08 <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-muslim-minority-school-language-ban-han-xinjiang-uyghur-hotan-hetian-government-communist-a7873446.html>
-   2017-07 https://qz.com/1056938/cambridge-university-press-china-quarterly-complies-with-censorship-removes-300-articles-on-topics-like-tiananmen-and-tibet-in-china/ Book list: 
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-file-manager/file/59970028145fd05f66868bf5?utm_content=bufferb652b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20170905214500/https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-file-manager/file/59970028145fd05f66868bf5?utm_content=bufferb652b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
-   2017-07 <https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/29/apple-removes-vpn-apps-from-the-app-store-in-china/>
-   2017-07 <http://shanghaiist.com/2017/07/26/liu-xia-home-visit.php>
-   2017-06 <http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/ordered-05092017155554.html> Uyghurs studying abroad ordered to return to China
-   2017-06 <http://www.whatsonweibo.com/new-rules-online-videos-china-no-displays-homosexuality/>
-   2017-06 <http://mashable.com/2017/06/23/china-bans-livestreaming/#FJ4h.sLYQqq9>
-   2017-05 <http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000233/at-wedding-market%2C-mothers-of-gays-and-lesbians-face-resistance>
-   2017-05 <https://ktar.com/story/1564381/ap-exclusive-china-lawyers-family-says-us-helped-them-flee>
-   2017-04 <https://chinachange.org/2017/05/03/breaking-lawyer-chen-jiangang-with-family-and-two-friends-seized-by-armed-police-in-yunnan/>
-   2017-03 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-39137293> BBC Team forced to sign confession
-   2016-11 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/38005603> Election china style, BBC interview with Chinese candidate, while thugs block him physically from nocking the door:  Funny / scary stuff. <https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/5dfigb/this_is_democracy_chinesestyle/>
-   2016-11 <https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/5ai1s6/chinese_citizen_arrested_after_wearing_xitler/> <https://wqw2010.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/101.html> Possible Twitter: <https://twitter.com/kwonpyong>
-   2016-09: <http://qz.com/783026/china-censorship-chinese-citizens-are-being-arrested-for-sharing-news-about-the-wukan-village-rebellion-online/> <http://qz.com/781989/foreign-journalists-are-wanted-for-3000-by-chinese-authorities-for-inciting-unrest-in-a-village/> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wukan_protests>
-   2016-06 <https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/28/china-lady-gaga-ban-list-hostile-foreign-forces-meeting-dalai-lama>
-   2016-06 first GitHub takedown <https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/78775b09e64d85f08547287cab204b48b2491192/China/2016/2016-06-08-programthink-zhao.md>
-   2016 queen says Chinese were rude in state visit http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/world/asia/china-britain-queen-xi-jinping.html?_r=0
-   Sexy banana eating forbidden http://shanghaiist.com/2016/05/06/dont_eat_that_banana.php
-   201X Chinese government uses forbidden media in China like Facebook and Twitter, possibly click farmed: <http://qz.com/671211/chinas-propaganda-outlets-have-leaped-the-top-of-facebook-even-though-it-banned-at-home/>
-   2016-04 China economic sanctions companies that sell weapons to Taiwan (some of those companies also sell civilian products to China) <http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2016/01/26/china-threatens-sanctions-against-u-s-companies-is-this-the-future/>
-   2016-04 Disney Life blocked http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-demands-shutdown-disneylife-service-887599
-   2016-04 Apple iTunes and iBooks blocked http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-demands-shutdown-apples-film-886831
-   2016 China's 'Great Firewall' blocks its creator http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-35968855
-   2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
-   2016 gay depiction banned on television http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/mar/04/china-bans-gay-people-television-clampdown-xi-jinping-censorship
-   2016 pastor 14 years jail <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/world/asia/china-zhejiang-christians-pastor-crosses.html>
-   2016 Armani Communist <http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35496562>
    -   Related:
        - <http://www.ibtimes.com/xi-jinping-wants-overhaul-image-chinas-rich-kids-1961207>
        - first section of <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKQ5ijFZ_j8>
-   2016 Ling Wancheng defects http://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-defector-reveals-beijings-secrets/
-   2016 Zhang Haitao (张海涛) faces 19 years in jail for his blog posts http://chinachange.org/2016/01/21/activist-in-xinjiang-sentenced-to-19-years-for-online-writings-and-rights-activities/
-   2016 Facebook Android app implements Tor option http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/20/technology/facebook-android-tor/
-   2016 Honk Kong (2016) movie https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/41y6ig/hong_kong_movie_predicts_dark_future_for_city/
-   2015-11 http://technode.com/2015/11/24/surge-advanced-proxy-tool-ios-pulled-app-store/
-   2015 https://news.vice.com/article/the-missing-hong-kong-booksellers-family-isnt-buying-his-televised-confession Gui Minhai, 51, from publisher Mighty Current who was going to publish a book about Xi Jinping's love life.
-   2015 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/christians-in-china-feel-full-force-of-authorities-repression/2015/12/23/7dd0ec5a-a736-11e5-b596-113f59ee069a_story.html
-   2015 Taiwan #1
    - https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3tz3jq/what_is_the_point_of_the_taiwan_1_thing/
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTqZ9xrxhHk
-   2015 Taiwanese beauty queen kicked out of Miss Earth pageant for refusing to change 'Taiwan ROC' sash to 'Chinese Taipei' http://shanghaiist.com/2015/11/23/miss-earth-ting-wen-yin.php
-   2015 shadowsocks creator threatened https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/speech-enables-speech-china-takes-aim-its-coders https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks
-   2015 Lego refuses to sell to Ai Weiwei http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34630829
-   2015 Bao Zhuoxuan 16-year old son of human rights layer in house arrest http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/world/asia/china-bao-zhuoxuan-son-wang-yu-rights-lawyer-house-arrest.html
-   2015 Human rights activists crackdown 200+ in jail
    - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/world/asia/china-crackdown-human-rights-lawyers.html
    - http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/13/china/china-activists-arrests/
    - http://time.com/3954935/china-arrests-lawyers-human-rights/
    - https://program-think.blogspot.com/2015/07/weekly-share-90.html
    - https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B710%E3%80%8C%E7%B6%AD%E6%AC%8A%E5%BE%8B%E5%B8%AB%E3%80%8D%E5%A4%A7%E6%8A%93%E6%8D%95%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6
    - #710律师劫
    - https://program-think.blogspot.com/2015/07/weekly-share-90.html
-   2015-03 China forces real usernames on the net, and provoking ones
    - https://advox.globalvoices.org/2015/04/16/new-internet-rules-in-china-target-usernames-avatars-as-subversive-tools/
    - http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/28/china-username-policy-purge/
-   2014 https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/4hmhzt/xinjiang_massacre_2014_resulted_in_30005000_deaths/ something very serious happened in Xinjiang.
-   2013 <https://www.ft.com/content/db8b9e36-1119-11e8-940e-08320fc2a277> Peter Humphrey
-   2012 Nutech Namiba Hu Haifeng corruption scandal 纳米比亚威视胡海峰腐败丑闻 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuctech>. One of the most blocked on Wikipedia according to: [complete-gfw-rulebook-for-wikipedia-v3.0.pdf][]
-   2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Chinese_pro-democracy_protests> <https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E8%8C%89%E8%8E%89%E8%8A%B1%E9%9D%A9%E5%91%BD>
-   2010 10 month Xinjiang internet blackout <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8682145.stm>
-   2009 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Zuoren#2009_court_case> Ai Weiwei documentary about it: <https://aiweiwei.com/documentaries/disturbing-the-peace/index.html>
-   2008 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project> 豆腐渣工程 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_Unnatural_Disaster:_The_Tears_of_Sichuan_Province>
-   2008 Wenzhou train collision 2011年甬台温铁路列车追尾事故: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision#Government_response> <https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E5%B9%B4%E7%94%AC%E5%8F%B0%E6%B8%A9%E9%93%81%E8%B7%AF%E5%88%97%E8%BD%A6%E8%BF%BD%E5%B0%BE%E4%BA%8B%E6%95%85>
-   2008 Tibetan unrest 西藏骚乱 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Tibetan_unrest> <https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E5%B9%B4%E8%A5%BF%E8%97%8F%E9%AA%9A%E4%B9%B1>
-   2005 Dongzhou protests <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongzhou_protests> <https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%9C%E6%B4%B2%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6>
-   1999 Apple censors Dalai Lama for China <http://www.lionsroar.com/apple-thinks-different-about-the-dalai-lama-in-china-2/>
-   1989 Tiananmen Square protests 六四事件: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989> <https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6>
    - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess_of_Democracy> <https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国国际广播电台>
-   1987–1989 Tibetan unrest 年拉萨骚乱 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987%E2%80%9389_Tibetan_unrest> <https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%E5%B9%B4%E6%8B%89%E8%90%A8%E9%AA%9A%E4%B9%B1>. Videos: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jylh1qfOG4>, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMZgoRuPJBg>
-   1978, 1997 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Spring> <https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC%E4%B9%8B%E6%98%A5> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Wall> <https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E5%8D%95%E6%B0%91%E4%B8%BB%E5%A2%99>

Less important events:

-   2017-05 <https://qz.com/989454/a-chinese-students-commencement-speech-at-the-university-of-maryland-praising-fresh-air-and-democracy-is-riling-chinas-internet/>