At Tea Leaf Nation, Gloria Wang surveys Chinese reactions to Leslie T. Chang’s Factory Girls, recently released in simplified characters five years after its original English-language publication. The book follows two...
From ESWN blog: The following is a translation of a blog post by Southern Weekend reporter Fu Jianfeng (ÂÇÖÂâëÈîã). This is about the FoxConn-versus-China Business News case that Fu and his colleagues were working on, but never go to publish it after a ban was issued on further coverage. So this is yet another case […]
From Reuters via the New York Times: A Taiwanese firm has dropped its libel claim against two Shanghai journalists and their newspaper for saying that workers at a plant manufacturing iPods were mistreated, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. Shenzhen-based Foxconn, which manufactures iPods for Apple Inc. , and the China Business News […]
From AP via The Wall Street Journal: A maker of Apple Computer Inc.‘s iPod has cut its demand for defamation damages over a newspaper report that it mistreated its workers to a symbolic one yuan (12.6 cents) following a wave of bad publicity. Hongfujin Precision Industry Co. said it was reducing its demands for damages […]
From RConversation blog: Congratulations to China’s bloggers and journalists! While certain influential journalists in the U.S. can’t seem to shake their tiresome bloggers vs. journalists arguments Chinese bloggers and journalists are working together to defeat enemies of free speech. Way to go!!
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