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Lu Wei on the “dream of the web”

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lu-wei-new-yearBy David Bandurski | Posted on 2015-02-17

On February 9, 2015, China’s internet czar, Lu Wei (鲁炜), the director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, hosted a Chinese New Year banquet at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse. Continue reading →

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Jiang Wen: China Is “Beyond Parody”

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Actor and director Jiang Wen is currently in Germany at the Berlinale showing his new film Gone With the Bullets, a sequel to the blockbuster Let the Bullets Fly. The film’s December Continue reading →

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Mainland delays HK TV shows

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By Catherine Wong Tsoi-lai Source:Global Times Published: 2015-2-4 23:28:02

A popular video website on Wednesday confirmed that it has received a notice from the State broadcasting regulator to pull down online streams of Hong Kong TV dramas for review.

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Hu Shaojiang： Re-ideologizing Chinese Universities

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Published: February 10, 2015

Bring back thought policing……

Yesterday [January 29], the Chinese Minister of Education Yuan Guiren (袁贵仁) called in a conference for the implementation of “The Opinions on Further Strengthening and Improving Propaganda and Ideological Work in Higher Education under the New Circumstances,” Continue reading →

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HSBC story deleted from Weibo

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The following post from user “LifeTime” was deleted from Weibo sometime before 8:31AM today, February 10, 2015, less than 12 hours after it was posted. Continue reading →

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HELEN GAO:China Sharpens Its Censorship Blade

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Credit Jing Wei

BEIJING — In early November, when Beijing played host to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, city officials closed hundreds of factories and forced millions of vehicles Continue reading →

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Creative Writing in China

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Posted on 1 February 2015 by Nicholas Jose

Creative fiction has a venerable history in the People’s Republic of China. Many would argue that the nation’s very foundations lie in its creative fictions. Continue reading →

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China Warns Against ‘Western Values’ in Imported Textbooks

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30sino-texts01-tmagArticleBy CHRIS BUCKLEY JANUARY 30, 2015 6:16 AM January 30, 2015 6:16 am

Students at Renmin University in Beijing. Education officials have warned against teaching materials that might promote Western values.Credit Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times

In law school at Peking University in the late 1970s, Li Keqiang, now China’s premier, was an avid student of English and helped translate texts that gave his generation its first, exhilarating exposure to Western legal ideals after the death of Mao. Continue reading →

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