Tag Archives: China

The Danger of China’s ‘Chosen Trauma’

HARRY W.S. LEE 09.02.14

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A man walks on the Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing. On July 7, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the bridge, also known as Lugou Bridge, at the outskirts of Beijing. Continue reading

Top Chinese university warns against criticising Communist Party: journal

BEIJING, Sept 1 Mon Sep 1, 2014 3:56am EDT
(Reuters) – One of China’s top universities has urged students and teachers to “fight against” criticism of the ruling Communist Party, an influential party journal said, in the latest curbs on free expression. Continue reading

China tells journalists to learn ‘Marxist news values’

August 30, 2014

China ordered its journalists on Saturday to learn “Marxist news values” and uphold the principles of news as prescribed by the ruling Communist Party, Continue reading

China in 12 Books


Posted 11:00am Wed Aug 27th, 2014 by heather budimulia

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Viewing a country through an author’s lens is one of the best ways to understand a country or culture. But with millions of books on the market, Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:Lei Feng’s Specter Still Hovers Over Mainland China

April 10, 2013

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Communist propaganda heroes and their political purpose, then and now. Continue reading

Leaked Documents Reveal How the Chinese Communist Party Channels Public Opinion

Posted 25 August 2014 5:28 GMT

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West Gate of Peking University. Photo by 維基小霸王 via Flickr (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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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