Lingua Sinica
Lingua Sinica, 田間 Tian Jian, Dalia Parete, Mark Chiu, David Bandurski, Heng Yu, Zack ChiangNews, analysis, and commentary on Chinese-language media from the PRC and beyond.
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The Risks and Rewards of Chinese AI
Late last month, an op-ed published in the German magazine Focus+ argued that Europe should embrace open-source models from China — those offered free of charge for anyone to download, modify, and run — as a transitional plan to develop its...
The Propaganda Promise of AI
In its 2025 social responsibility report, an annual exercise required of all Chinese media outlets, China Daily lists external communication as one of four defined categories of its broader political responsibility. How is China’s flagship...
After Impact: The Bizarre Silence Behind the Beijing Plane Crash
Welcome back to Lingua Sinica.
Our focus this week is the strange story of the small plane that slammed into Beijing’s CITIC Tower last Friday, almost exactly a week ago. When I say “strange,” I am not talking about the alleged psychologic...
China’s Vanishing Space for Rainbow Journalism
Welcome back to Intersections,
In honor of Pride Month, this edition is a special feature from our Chinese-language sister publication Tian Jian (田間) about the China Rainbow Media Awards, a civil society initiative launched 15 years ago to...
Friends With Influence
Since Xi Jinping addressed a Politburo Standing Committee session five years ago calling for a reinvention of China’s global propaganda and communication efforts, provinces and cities across the country have jumped headlong into the project...
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News, analysis, and commentary on Chinese-language media from the PRC and beyond.
Tian Jian (田間) is an online publication focusing on global Chinese-language media and journalism dynamic and development.
Researcher at the China Media Project. Editor of Intersections, a monthly bulletin dedicated to coverage of women’s issues and feminism in the Chinese-language media space.
Mark is a researcher for the China Media Project's Lingua Sinica platform. A former political journalist, he holds a master's degree in International Studies and Diplomacy from SOAS. After considering a diplomatic career, he returned to journalism.
David has led the China Media Project's research and partnerships since 2017, having joined CMP in Hong Kong in 2004. He is the author of Dragons in Diamond Village (Penguin), and co-editor of Investigative Journalism in China (HKU Press).
Currently chief editor of Tian Jian (田間), CMP’s Chinese-language news magazine of and about global Sinophone media and journalism.
Zack Chiang is a researcher for the China Media Project. He previously worked as the production coordinator at Ghost Island Media, a podcast network in Taiwan covering Taiwanese affairs, politics and society.
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