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.
Coverage of Lan Chengzhang’s killing will not die. Both China Newsweek and Oriental Outlook Weekly weigh in with cover features this week. Oriental Outlook opens from a particularly fresh and unflattering angle: the murderers’. It’s worth picking up a copy, because the piece is not available on the Web. (More on that below). The Shanghai-based […]
Read MoreNot to be suppressed, acclaimed journalist Wang Keqin has blogged unprinted portions of his probe into the death of reporter Lan Chengzhang. With the author’s permission, CDT’s Mo Ming translates them below. Lan died at the hands of illegal coal mine bosses whom reports indicate he was trying to blackmail. Wang’s missing passages, now posted […]
Read MoreSuch are the political and economic realities of China’s lethal coal mining business that all too often it doesn’t pay to play it clean. Sadly, the same can be said for journalism on the subject. Celebrated reporter Wang Keqin confirmed this for himself in the mining town of Datong in recent days. On Wednesday, the […]
Read MoreWhat will come of Caijing magazine’s latest cover story, which examines the stealth privatization of power conglomerate Luneng? Folks here are watching and whispering. Last week, Caijing reported that two newly established no-name entities, one backed by a trust fund with a mystery investor, “secretly” acquired a 91 percent share last May in the Shandong […]
Read MoreNetizens in southern China have zhadui (Êâé†Ü) and jiaoban (Âè´Êùø) with local newspapers who huyou (ÂøΩÊdž) them with northern speak. Get it? Neither do they. In recent days, cyber-pundits in Guangdong province have ganged up (zhadui(r)) and picked a fight (jiaoban) with local papers who they say are jerking them around (huyou) with a preponderance […]
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