Monthly Archives: 7 月 2014

Sensitive Words: New Gang of Four and More

As of July 18, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function).

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A rumor has spread that Ling Jihua’s younger brother, Ling Wancheng, and his nephew, Ling Hujian, Continue reading

READING THROUGH SOMEONE ELSE’S EYES

JULY 17, 2014

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You pick up a novel. If it’s any good, Continue reading

Jodie Ginsberg: The new dissidents

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By Jodie Ginsberg / 11 July, 2014
After the Wall panelists.
Martin Roth, Kate Maltby, Sebastion Borger, David Edgar, Tomasz Kitlinski and Timothy Garton Ash.

In 1977, the Russian dissident Alexander Ginzburg — whose detention and sentencing almost a Continue reading

UN body rules that Ilham Tohti’s detention “arbitrary,” violates intl law & requests China to release him immediately

UN body rules that Ilham Tohti’s detention “arbitrary,” violates intl law & requests China to release him immediately Continue reading

A China Reading Rainbow | China Hang-up

by Project Pengyou on July 14th, 2014
What China books are worth reading?

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The once mysterious Middle Kingdom has long since been opened to the outside world, and where there was previously a dearth of good literature, there’s now a mountain of China books. Continue reading

Undermining China, One Knockout at a Time

By AMY QIN JULY 17, 2014 4:47 AMJuly 17, 2014 7:15 am

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Is Superman, depicted here in a mural in Beijing, a weapon being deployed to turn Chinese away from their own heroes?Credit Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency

Tensions between the United States and China over Continue reading

MYANMAR: Five journalists sentenced to 10 years in prison; 50 others face charges for a peaceful protest

17 July 2014 RAN

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Five journalists with the Unity weekly journal, arrested in January and February 2014, were each sentenced to 10 years in prison with hard labour on 10 July 2014 over a report about an Continue reading

Advice for journalists in China: Hire a lawyer

Investigative journalists in China have always had to bow to censorship and worry about being arrested. But this year, the Communist party has stopped them from working altogether

Malcolm Moore By Malcolm Moore, Beijing7:00AM BST 17 Jul 2014

For years a journalist who I shall call Mr Chen has run the investigation unit of one of China’s most daring newspapers. Continue reading