Chinese protesters have turned to blank sheets of paper to express their anger over COVID-19 restrictions in a rare, widespread outpouring of public dissent that has gone beyond social media to ...

So often one item comes to symbolise an entire protest movement. In China, that item is a humble piece of blank paper. As dusk fell on Shanghai on Sunday evening, some of those who gathered at a ...

A woman holds a blank sheet of paper as demonstrators protest the deaths caused by an apartment complex fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, at the Langson Library on the campus of the University of ...

Blank pieces of paper have become a symbol of defiance for protesters in China, especially among students at universities. They are expressing their anger over the country’s Covid-19 restrictions.

Demonstrators hold blank signs during a protest in Beijing, China, on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. Bloomberg via Getty Images “The white paper represent[s] everything we want to say but cannot say ...

HONG KONG, China – As they gathered inside a Hong Kong shopping mall this week, a small group of protesters silently held up blank sheets of paper as a way to express their fears that the city ...

In Shanghai, a vigil grew into a street protest where many held blank sheets of white paper in a symbol of tacit defiance. In Beijing, students at Tsinghua University raised signs showing a math ...

People hold sheets of blank paper in protest against COVID restrictions in China during a vigil on November 28, 2022, in Hong Kong’s central district. Paper has become a symbol of defiance.

Since protests began on Friday, Chinese citizens have taken to holding up blank A4 sheets of paper. The paper symbolizes their anger against Chinese authorities and China’s harsh lockdown measures.

The blank paper also spread to other cities in China, so much so that a local stationery company had to deny rumors that it would stop selling A4 paper in the interest of national security.

In her hands was a sheet of unspoiled blank paper. The trend has its roots in the 2020 Hong Kong demonstrations, where locals held blank pieces of paper to protest against the city's draconian new ...