By Qian Gang | Posted on 2014-11-06
The recent 4th Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party introduced a policy document with the long-winded title, Decision on Major Issues Concerning the Comprehensive Promotion of Rule of the Nation in Accord with the Law (关於全面推进依法治国若干问题的决定). Continue reading
China’s constitution roller-coaster已关闭评论
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The chat application LINE has strengthened its censorship methods in mainland China by targeting phrases and word combinations.
By Pao- Pao / 23 October, 2014
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The instant Continue reading
Stricter and subtler: how China has ramped up instant messaging censorship已关闭评论
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Ian Johnson MAY 8, 2014 ISSUE
The Contest of the Century: The New Era of Competition with China—and How America Can Win
by Geoff Dyer
Knopf, 308 pp., $26.95
Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China
by Stephen Roach
Yale University Press, 326 pp., $32.50
China Goes Global: The Partial Power
by David Shambaugh
Oxford University Press, 409 pp., $29.95 Continue reading
President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign is beginning to encompass all forms of thought and expression, even moderate ones, not approved by the ruling party.
By Peter Ford, Staff Writer OCTOBER 18, 2014
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PICUN, CHINA — When she got off school last Thursday, Huang Qiufeng, Continue reading
Sensing subversion, China throws the book at kids’ libraries已关闭评论
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Corporation condemns ‘deliberate censorship’ as Chinese official claims foreign media are not reporting protests objectively
China has blocked the BBC website as protests in Hong Kong continue. Photograph: Alexander Koerner/Getty Images Continue reading
China blocks BBC website as Hong Kong tensions rise已关闭评论
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Tagged BBC, censorship, China, Democracy, Hong Kong, Internet Freedom, Occupy Central movement
BY JOSEPH W. ESHERICK OCTOBER 15, 2014
It was a hot afternoon in June in the East China city of Jinan. I was returning to my hotel after an afternoon coffee, thinking of the conference I had come to attend and trying to escape the heat on the shady side of the street. My cell phone rang, Continue reading
How I Dealt With China’s Book Censors-ChinaFile One Western author shares his struggle to keep a text true to history.已关闭评论
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JOSEPH W. ESHERICK10.14.14
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It was a hot afternoon in June in the East China city of Jinan. Continue reading
On Dealing with Chinese Censors已关闭评论
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October 11, 2014
Yesterday, the Supreme People’s Court issued a document with the – predictably convoluted – title “Supreme People’s Court Regulations concerning Some Questions of Applicable Law in Handing Civil Dispute Cases involving the Use of Information Networks to Harm Personal Rights and Interests”. !–more–>This document provides Continue reading
Parsing the New Internet Rules of China’s Supreme Court已关闭评论
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