By AMY QIN October 16, 2015
Protesters at a rally against Chinese censorship in front of the New York Public Library ahead of a BookExpo America event in May. A large delegation of publishers from China attended the trade gathering as guests of honor.
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This may be remembered as the year China’s publishing industry truly went global. In May, a large delegation of Chinese publishers attended BookExpo America, a major Continue reading
American Publishers Take a Stand Against Censorship in China已关闭评论
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By MICHAEL FORSYTHE OCTOBER 2, 2015 11:40 AM October 2, 2015 11:40 am
Johannes Chan, a professor at the University of Hong Kong, was rejected this week for a promotion, raising fears over Beijing’s influence.Credit Fai Lo/The Initium Media
The governing council of the University of Hong Kong rejected this week the nomination of Johannes Chan, a professor and former dean at the university’s law school, as one of five pro-vice chancellors, a post with influence over how Hong Kong’s most prestigious academic institution attracts and hires talent.
For almost a year, Mr. Chan’s candidacy for the post had been under attack by local newspapers sympathetic to China’s central government. It drew considerable attention Continue reading
Q. and A.: Johannes Chan on Academic Freedom in Hong Kong已关闭评论
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By EDWARD WONG SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 5:04 AM September 18, 2015 5:04 am
A photograph of Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace laureate, at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. In 2009, he was charged with “inciting subversion of state power” and sentenced to 11 years in prison.Credit Espen Rasmussen for The New York Times
For them, pens and laptops are the tools of their trade and their megaphones to the world. Among their ranks are some of the best-known chroniclers of American society and Continue reading
PEN Appeals to Xi Jinping for Release of Imprisoned Chinese已关闭评论
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By AMIE TSANG SEPT. 6, 2015
A screen grab of CCTV footage of Wang Xiaolu, a journalist with the Caijing business magazine. He was compelled to confess that he had written a “sensational” and “irresponsible” article on the stock market. Credit Cctv/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
HONG KONG — When the Chinese Ministry of Public Security arrested nearly 200 people at the end of August for “spreading rumors,” one of the most prominent targets was Wang Xiaolu, a reporter for the respected business magazine Caijing.
Mr. Wang was compelled to confess on television before going to trial. Dressed in a green polo shirt and looking downcast, he told viewers of China Central Television, the main state network, Continue reading
Caijing Journalist’s Shaming Signals China’s Growing Control Over News Media已关闭评论
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2015-09-03
Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong, May 13, 2015.
AFP
As Chinese President Xi Jinping gears up for his first state visit to the United States since assuming the presidency in 2013, calls are growing for U.S. and Chinese officials to make meaningful progress on human rights following a series of harsh crackdowns by his administration on critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
“Xi has presided over the detentions and imprisonment of Continue reading
Chinese Rights Activists Step Up Calls For Action Ahead of President’s Trip已关闭评论
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China Change, published: August 21, 2015
We believe that this is a deliberate effort to harm Guo Feixiong and kill him slowly.
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Chinese democracy activist Guo Feixiong (郭飞雄, also known by his original name, Yang Maodong 杨茂东) has now been held in Guangzhou’s Tianhe Detention Center for 743 days since his detention on August 8, 2013, Continue reading
Guozhen Xiao：Activist Guo Feixiong Held 743 Days Without Yard Time已关闭评论
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2015-07-29
A file photo of Gao Yu speaking in Hong Kong.
AFP
Fears are growing over the health of veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu, who is serving a seven-year jail term for “revealing state secrets,” following a recent medical check-up and amid continuing political pressure on her in prison.
Gao, 71, was sentenced by the Beijing No. 3 Intermediate People’s Court in April Continue reading
Fears Grow For Gao Yu Amid Huge Political Pressure已关闭评论
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2015-07-17
Demonstrators call for press freedom in support of journalists from Southern Weekend newspaper in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong province, Jan. 8, 2013.
AFP
The ruling Chinese Communist Party has promoted a propaganda official whose reported rewriting of a New Year front page editorial in the cutting-edge magazine Southern Weekend prompted a strike and days of protests in early 2013.
Tuo Zhen, 59, who is believed to have rewritten Continue reading
Rise of Guangdong Propaganda Chief a Sign of Further Media Controls to Come已关闭评论
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