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What Can a Clever News Censor Change? – Liang Jing

Liang Jing (梁京) wrote the following commentary (see original Chinese version here). Many thanks to David Kelly of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore for providing the translation to CDT: What can a...

A Lone Voice Fights Chinese Censorship – Richard Spencer

From The Telegraph: Zhang Yihe, a historian whose latest banned book was a collection of biographies of Peking Opera singers, has sent a flood of open letters and petitions to the government demanding a change to censorship laws. She has become a ghostly star of the internet: ghostly because the many posts supporting her are […]

China Replaces Top Censor – AP

From AP: China’s chief censor has been removed from his post, state media reported Tuesday, following an outcry this year over a reported decision to ban eight books. In January, the Chinese author Zhang Yihe issued a public statement criticizing China’s General Administration of Press and Publications for banning one of her books about the […]

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