Tag Archives: Press Freedom

MURONG XUECUN: Corrupting the Chinese Language

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May 28, 2015

Andy Wong/Associated Press

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

China’s Publishers Court America as Its Authors Scorn Censorship

chinabook-articleLargeBy 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

Fears For Hong Kong’s Independent Publishers After China Book Chain Takeover

2015-04-09

Aimage (43) woman distributes newspapers in Hong Kong, Feb. 13, 2014.
AFP

The recent takeover by Beijing’s representative office in Hong Kong of a key publishing house has sparked fears of a widening ideological assault by the ruling Chinese Continue reading

China’s Brave Underground Journal—II

Ian Johnson DECEMBER 18, 2014 ISSUE

Remembrance an online journal published in Tiantongyuan, China

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Li Zhensheng/Contact Press Images

Ouyang Xiang, son of a denounced former Party secretary in Heilongjiang province, being persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for sending an unsigned letter to the local revolutionary committee in his father’s defense, Harbin, November 1968. The sign around his neck bears his name Continue reading

China’s Brave Underground Journal

Ian Johnson DECEMBER 4, 2014 ISSUE

Remembrance an unofficial journal published in Tiantongyuan, China

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Young pioneers on the eve of the Cultural Revolution, 1965; photographs by Marc Riboud, whose exhibition ‘Witness at a Crossroads: Photographer Marc Riboud in Asia’ is at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York City, until March 23, 2015

On the last stretch of flatlands north of Beijing, just before the Mongolian foothills, lies the satellite city of Tiantongyuan. Built during the euphoric run-up Continue reading

World Press Freedom Index 2015: decline on all fronts

1-300x143The Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria Continue reading

Mainland delays HK TV shows

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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China harassing and imprisoning Chinese working for foreign news outlets

2015-01-04T092956Z_01_PEK01_RTRIDSP_3_CHINA-STAMPEDEPolicemen stand in formation as they guard on the bund where people were killed in a stampede incident during a new year’s celebration, in Shanghai, on Jan. 3. Chinese state media and the public criticised the government and police on Friday for failing to prevent the stampede in Shanghai that killed

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