Translation: Research Fund Aims to Fuel Xiology Boom
Xi Jinping’s ideological "banner term"—"Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with...
Academia
Katy Perry, Publishers, and Self-censorship in China
On Monday, CDT Chinese reposted a letter circulating on Weibo which purportedly shows singer Katy...
Academics Condemn New Wave of Journal Censorship
In August, news that Cambridge University Press had agreed to hide a haphazardly compiled list of...
Cambridge Censorship Storm Continues
Reporting and commentary has continued this week on Cambridge University Press’ swiftly...
Cambridge University Press U-turns on Journal Cuts
Late last week, news came that Cambridge University Press had agreed to remove 315 articles from...
College Counselors Told to Join the Party
Since coming to power, the Xi Jinping administration has focused on strengthening Party ideology...
Minitrue: Support Attacks on Western Values in Education
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Recommended Readings on the Chinese Internet
At Chinet.cz, the University of Nottingham’s Jonathan Sullivan describes the search for a...
Dealing With China’s Censors
In a post for ChinaFile, modern Chinese historian Joseph W. Esherick describes his experience...
3 Universities Pledge to Uphold Party Ideals
Amid the Xi administration’s continuing efforts to promote ideological orthodoxy, the New...
China’s History Archives Increasingly Off-Bounds
As Beijing works to fortify control of popular and new media with fresh regulations,...
Five Pounds of Facts on Chinese History
At The New York Review of Books, Jonathan Mirsky reviews Endymion Wilkinson’s titanic 1.5...
Bloomberg Under Continued Fire Over Self-Censorship
The Committee to Protect Journalists’ International Press Freedom Awards will take place in...
Chinese Dreaming in the Ivory Tower
CDT Chinese recently stumbled upon this list of major research projects funded by the 2013...
Scientific Research Looks Good on Paper
The Economist reports that China’s strong focus on the number of papers a scholar publishes...
The True Cost of Becoming an Academician
Zhang Shuguang, a former deputy chief engineer of the now dissolved Ministry of Railways facing 13...
Ministry of Truth: Controversy Over New Zhejiang U. President
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and bloggers often refer to these instructions as “Directives from the Ministry...
Self-Censorship, Academia, and Beijing’s Visa Regime
Though his own experiences have been positive, The Diplomat’s James R. Holmes laments the “chilling effect” that Beijing has on the scholarly community by denying visas and valued access to potential critics:...
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