Translation: Yue Xin “On the Week Since My Open Letter”
The 1998 suicide of Peking University student Gao Yan after her alleged rape by a professor has...
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LatestDocuments Show How Weibo Filters Sensitive News
Microblogging websites like Weibo, once regarded as unprecedented platforms for free expression in...
Can China Perfect Internet Censorship?
In 2013, Google chairman Eric Schmidt predicted that widespread encryption offered “a real...
Rights Groups Detail China’s Deepening Repression
Human Rights Watch released its 2015 World Report on Thursday, covering more than 90 countries in...
Mao Secretary’s Daughter Sues Over Book Seizure
As Fourth Plenum legal reforms promise to increase citizens’ powers to sue the authorities,...
In China, Companies Learn Business of Human Rights
Human Rights Watch’s China Director Sophie Richardson writes at The Globe and Mail that with...
Beijing’s Pressure Tactics in Hong Kong
This week Beijing released a key policy document known as the “white paper” that...
Freedom of Information in China: Right to Know
The Economist reports on China’s efforts to let just enough “sunshine” into the...
Freedom With An Asterisk
The Economist reports on “a survey conducted in recent months in 17 countries for BBC World...
Charles Xue Blames Mood For Online “Vent”
The detained social media celebrity and venture capitalist Charles Xue said on state television...
Chang Ping on Media Censorship and Its Future
At ChinaFile, Ouyang Bin talks to former Southern Weekly editor Chang Ping about the New Year censorship stand-off at the newspaper, China’s changing media climate, and prospects for reform under Xi Jinping. Why does it...
Wen Jiabao Calls For Inquiry Into Family’s Wealth
While lawyers acting for Wen Jiabao’s family threatened legal action against The New York Times following David Barboza’s investigation of their business dealings, the premier himself has taken a different tack....
Abuse of Foreign Journalists in China: Responses
Three China-based foreign journalists’ groups issued a joint statement this week expressing alarm at recent cases of harassment, in some of which official security forces were involved. At Global Times, Liu Linlin...
China Opens Cracks in Its Deep Culture of Government Secrecy
Published in the Times Argus: The Chinese businessman battled for years to get cities to reveal their budgets, but his quest seemed quixotic in a country notorious for keeping citizens in the dark. Then China did what would once...
More Reactions to the ‘Sunshine Act’
Earlier, CDT posted an excerpt of a September 24th Southern Weekend editorial on a recent communiqué from Central Commission for Discipline Inspection that announced officials are “required to report all records pertaining...
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