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The South China Morning Post has reported that the libel trial against the authors of An Investigation into China’s Peasantry has opened in Anhui Province: “A court in Anhui has begun hearing a libel case against the authors of a best-selling book which exposed the plight of peasants in China. The claim has been brought […]
Read MoreAP reported today that “China’s communist leaders are easing their official prudishness about sexuality, and carrying out the first nationwide survey on women’s sex lives. The 2004 China Female Sex Survey will ask respondents how often they have sex, whether they’ve had extramarital affairs and other questions, the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday. ” […]
Read MoreA report I recently wrote for the Committee to Protect Journalists, about media reforms and the increase in violence against journalists in China, has just been released. From the press release: “In China’s tightly proscribed media environment, journalists have long faced censorship and imprisonment. But as the media in China become market-oriented-and as journalists report […]
Read MoreThanks to Josh Chin for submitting the following post to CDN: Lu Yuegang, a reporter for the China Youth Daily who writes often about the plight of the country’s have-nots, has just fired off an open letter demanding political reform to the secretary of the Communist Youth League, according to a recent post on Radio […]
Read MoreEastSouthWestNorth has translated a chapter of the book An Investigation into China’s Peasantry, in which Premier Wen Jianbao makes an impromptu visit to a poor Chinese village. The translation (as well as commentary from the translator) is available here.
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