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Translation: Zhang Qianfan on Academic Censorship

Xi Jinping has long put focus on ideological work in China’s universities and colleges, calling for them to be communist “strongholds that adhere to Party leadership,” and tightening oversight on the ideology and politics of students as well as instructors and university staff.  This ongoing campaign has recently and ironically coincided with an at times violent crackdown on self-described Marxist students and campus organizations who have been