From Quill Magazine, blogger Joseph Bosco writes:
When a free press becomes a reality in China ” and it surely will ” it will come after countless small victories and even more tragic sacrifices by brave, persistent souls. This is a story about one of the small victories.
Just as I was wrapping up the 2004 spring semester at an elite government university in Beijing, where I taught media and foreign policy to prospective diplomats, the phone rang, and I got a shock.
Professor Sun Youzhong was on the line. He introduced himself as dean of the journalism department at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, venerably known throughout China as “Beiwai.” He asked if I would like to teach “First Amendment, free press, American-style journalism” at his university.
