Monthly Archives: 8 月 2014

Chang Ping:Without the Right to Remember There Can Be No Freedom to Forget

published: August 23, 2014

(This is Chang Ping’s rebuttal to Frank Sieren’s Let Fairness Replace Anger [link in German], the second round of the Sieren vs. Chang Ping debate in June this year in Deutsche Welle about the June 4th massacre in 1989 Continue reading

Writing China: Jack Livings, ‘The Dog’

5:32 pm HKT Aug 19, 2014 CULTURE
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Jack Livings’ new book, ‘The Dog’. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Continue reading

Reverse-engineering censorship in China: Randomized experimentation and participant observation

Science 22 August 2014: 

Vol. 345 no. 6199
DOI: 10.1126/science.1251722
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Gary King1,*, Jennifer Pan1, Margaret E. Roberts2
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1Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Continue reading

Beyond the Dalai Lama: An Interview with Woeser and Wang Lixiong

Ian Johnson

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China NPC meeting could be writing on the wall for democracy in Hong Kong

By Cormac McCartan Aug 21, 2014 1:44PM UTC

Hong Kong China Tension

People fill in a street during a march at an annual pro-democracy protest in downtown Hong Kong on July 1. Pic: AP. Continue reading

Chinese Society:Change, Conflict and Resistance, 3rd Edition

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Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry, Mark Selden

Routledge – 2010 – 344 pages Continue reading

German Broadcaster Fires Chinese Blogger Su Yutong

By IAN JOHNSON AUG. 21, 2014

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Su Yutong was told that her contract with Deutsche Welle, the German public broadcaster, would not be renewed in 2015. Credit Benjamin Kilb for The New York Times

BERLIN — In the wake of a debate over the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, a well-known Chinese government critic has been fired from her job at a German public broadcaster.

The activist, Su Yutong, 38, who has been exiled in Germany since 2010, was informed Tuesday that her contract with Deutsche Welle would not be renewed in 2015. In a statement on Wednesday, the broadcaster said the decision had been made because she disclosed information about internal meetings and publicly criticized a co-worker.

“It doesn’t have anything to do with an evaluation of what she wrote,” a Deutsche Welle spokesman, Johannes Hoffmann, said in a telephone interview from Bonn. “It’s just that she tweeted about internal issues about the Deutsche Welle in a way that no company in the world would tolerate. We warned her, and she continued to do it.”

Many commentators on Chinese-language social media, however, see more at work, especially because Ms. Su was one of the most prolific bloggers on Deutsche Welle’s widely read Chinese-language website, and often very critical of Chinese government policy. In recent months, they say, more pro-Beijing voices have been given greater prominence.

 
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Should Twitter, Facebook and Google Executives be the Arbiters of What We See and Read?

By Glenn Greenwald21 Aug 2014, 5:02 PM EDT

World Leaders At G8 Summit

DEAUVILLE, FRANCE – MAY 26: (L-R) Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Union, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook Inc. and Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google Inc. arrive for the internet session of the G8 summit on May 26, 2011 in Deauville, France. (Photo by Chris Ratcliffe – Pool/Getty Images) Continue reading