Jonathan Ansfield reports for Newsweek magazine from Beijing, where he has lived for over eight years. His freelance work has also appeared in The Asian Wall Street Journal, Wallpaper, and The News York Times. From 2001 to 2004, he served as a general news correspondent for Reuters. His main area of interest is the Chinese media and its political and market roles in democratic change.
The latest issue of Caijing magazine came out on Friday this week. It was supposed to hit newstands on Monday. Why the hold-up? Authorities ordered Caijing’s publishers to shelve two stories just as it was about to go to print, according to a report in Hong Kong’s Ming Pao on Thursday. The Wall Street Journal […]
Read MoreThe government’s all about recalibrating the economy and spreading the wealth at this year’s NPC. Again. That means more spending on schooling country kids and expanding health care benefits; fewer scummy, wasteful mills and power plants; and populist new laws to even out taxes for foreign and domestic companies, the legal status of public and […]
Read More[Disclaimer: The following post is dedicated to politics junkies and members of China’s foreign press corps looking to justify their existence over the next ten days. General interest readers are kindly advised to ignore…] Call it a “show of democracy”, but the show just keeps on growing. Credit the mainland media for making the “two […]
Read MoreThe floodgates are open. The ground rules have softened. But not all the correspondents coming to China ahead of the Olympics can take full advantage. In October last year, the Foreign Desk editor of one media outlet emailed the following memo to his Greater China staff. Biganzi happened upon it and on checking with an […]
Read MoreAIDS fighter Gao Yaojie reported on her very own blog today that she was being held captive at home in Zhengzhou, as Henan province authorities tried to stop her from traveling to the United States to fetch an award. The 79-year-old even beat Reuters to the punch. Then, within hours, her blog post vanished. Gao […]
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