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KECHENG FANG:Behind the Fall of China’s Greatest Newspaper

Censorship and commercial pressures have driven the once-revered Southern Weekly to the margins.

BY MARIA REPNIKOVA, JANUARY 29, 2015

CHINA-MEDIA-CENSORSHIP-POLITICSBehind the Fall of China’s Greatest Newspaper

In early January 2013, hundreds of protesters gathered in the southern Chinese city of Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:“Southern Porridge”: Wordplay in Darkness

January 30, 2013

What does the Southern Weekly incident mean for the future of free speech in China?

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China’s Southern Weekly demonstration on censorship Continue reading