Geng Hongwei
Coverage of Geng Hongwei in the Nexus archive.
- CDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for May 2026
CDT’s May 2026 summary of censored content highlights 43 new deleted articles primarily from WeChat, covering topics like Chinese students in Russia’s Victory Day Parade, a coal mine explosion in Shanxi, and LGBTQ+ rights responses from China’s Supreme People’s Court. The archive includes deletions from platforms such as Weibo, Douyin, and Xiaohongshu, reflecting ongoing censorship by Chinese authorities.
- Chinese PhD dropout turned whistle-blower exposes data fabrication by renowned scholars
A Chinese PhD dropout turned whistleblower is exposing data fabrication by renowned scholars, gaining over two million followers online. Geng Hongwei, a former bioscience PhD candidate at Beihang University, dropped out in 2025 and gained public attention for questioning a paper from a research team in April.