China’s History Archives Increasingly Off-Bounds
As Beijing works to fortify control of popular and new media with fresh regulations,...
archives
All
LatestChinese E-Literature Needs Archiving
At ChinaFile, the author of the upcoming book, Internet Literature in China, Michel...
When Western Journalists Loved China’s Communists
The Global Times reports on an exhibition co-sponsored by the State Archives Administration of...
Jonathan Spence: As Luck Would Have It
Kate Whitehead at South China Morning Post gives a detailed profile of Jonathan Spence, the prominent China scholar and Yale history professor: The way Spence tells his life story, luck played a big role in his success, too....
Waiting for Wikileaks: Beijing’s Seven Secrets
For his blog on the New York Review of Books site, Perry Link writes about a recent high-level meeting convened by President Hu Jintao in July to discuss ways to prevent leaks of CCP archives: The report says that two worries...
Year of uneasy anniversaries ahead for China – Reuters
From Reuters, via The Australian:
China’s Communist Party vigilantly guards its history, but this year the country must navigate a cascade of traumatic anniversaries of
China publishes historical materials on Nanjing Massacre – People’s Daily
From People’s Daily:
China has published a series of historical documents on the notorious Nanjing Massacre in a bid to reflect history truthfully, objectively and comprehensively.
More than 80 percent of archives in China show official documents to public – Xinhua
From Xinhua:
Nearly 2,500 Chinese archives at and above the county level, or 80 percent of China’s total, have opened once confidential government “red-title”
Shannxi opens archives about Cultural Revolution – Xinhua
From Xinhua, via People’s Daily:
Shannxi Provincial Achives in northwest China opened secret files, including those about the 1966 to 1976 Cultural Revolution, for public
SUPPORT CDT
CDT EBOOKS
Giving Assistant
Amazon Smile
Anti-censorship Tools
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
