By MURONG XUECUN August 21, 2015
In the fall of 2011, a friend and I got on to discussing Tibet. “Do you know,” he said, “that Tibetans are setting fire to themselves?”
I had spent from 2005 to 2008 in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, but I had never heard of acts of self-immolation. My friend filled me in on the ghastly details, Continue reading
MURONG XUECUN: Scaling China’s Great Firewall已关闭评论
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2015-08-19
Chinese police have arrested more than 15,000 people to date for cyber crimes, including hacking and fraud, while activists said the crackdown is also linked to the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing war on online public opinion.
“More than 15,000 criminal suspects were detained in investigations of more than 7,400 Internet crimes by police departments and agencies,” the country’s ministry of public Continue reading
China Holds More Than 15,000 For Alleged Cyber Crime: Police已关闭评论
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2015-08-05
A man surfs the Internet at a coffee shop in Beijing in a file photo.
AFP
The ruling Chinese Communist Party looks set to further tighten its grip on the nation’s 650 million netizens with the stationing of specialist police officers in major Internet companies.
“We will further deepen and expand our Continue reading
China to Send Police Officers Into Internet Companies to Curb ‘Lawbreaking’已关闭评论
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2015-07-09
A draft cybersecurity law published by the National People’s Congress (NPC) looks set to formalize and extend Beijing’s already tight grip on the Chinese Internet, although official media denied it would curb people’s online freedom.
The draft law aims to “ensure network security, [and] safeguard the sovereignty of Continue reading
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May 28, 2015
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On a recent walk along a street in the southern Chinese city of Sanya, I heard a shop pumping out a rock version of the famous Communist Party anthem “Socialism Is Good.” Continue reading
MURONG XUECUN: Corrupting the Chinese Language已关闭评论
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By ALEXANDRA ALTER May 29, 2015
Protesters, including some Chinese writers, at the New York Public Library this week while a Chinese publishing delegation attended BookExpo only blocks away.
Sam Hodgson for The New York Times
A few years ago, the Chinese writer Murong Xuecun had the kind of Continue reading
China’s Publishers Court America as Its Authors Scorn Censorship已关闭评论
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2015-05-05
Netizens at an Internet cafe in China’s Zhejiang province, Nov. 2, 2012.
AFP
China’s 642 million Internet users are gradually abandoning the once-popular Twitter-like Sina Weibo and similar sites, as several years of crippling censorship is revealed in recent research, Continue reading
Chinese Netizens Migrate Away From Closely Censored Weibo Platforms已关闭评论
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2015-04-29
Netizens at an Internet cafe in China’s Zhejiang province, Nov. 2, 2012.
AFP
Tough new regulations requiring online publishers to attend “chats” with officials Continue reading
China’s New Internet Rules Raise Questions Over Role of Agency已关闭评论
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