Tag: Freedom of expression

Do China’s Bloggers Threaten or Bolster Communist Rule?

In the Globe and Mail, Mark MacKinnon writes about the weibo, or microblogging, phenomenon in China and asks whether the government’s selective tolerance of it as a form of expression helps entrench Party rule in China: Welcome to Sina Weibo, a giant speakers corner frequented by about 300 million Chinese, making it the largest national public square in history. It’s fast, it’s rude and, even

September 8, 2012 10:14 PM

‘The Dark Road’ and Ma Jian on Censorship

Following the UK release of his latest novel, The Dark Road, the Index on Censorship talks to exiled writer Ma Jian about

May 5, 2013 5:52 PM

Salman Rushdie, Murong Xuecun on Censorship

British Indian author Salman Rushdie became an icon of free expression after his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses garnered h

May 3, 2013 2:03 PM

China’s Resistance Art Beyond Ai Weiwei

Oiwan Lam at Global Voices Online looks at Chinese art-activist Li Ning and his art group, the Body Art Guerrilla Group,

January 23, 2013 9:34 PM

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