Person of the Week: Murong Xuecun
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Murong Xuecun
Activity of the Week: Drink Tea
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Activists Speak Out on Xi’s Rights Crackdown
Commenting on the Xi administration’s ongoing crackdown on rights activism and legal...
“Censorship Breeds Prejudice in the Long Run”
In a joint interview with Isaac Stone Fish and David Wertime at Foreign Policy, Chinese publisher...
Censoring the Media at Home and Abroad
For The Diplomat, Freedom House’s Sarah Cook gives a rundown on the situation for Chinese...
Great Firewall Reinforced for WWII Anniversary Parade
Following the shutdown of two censorship circumvention tools in the past week under apparent...
Censors and Sensibility: Writing In and On China
On the Sinica podcast, Ian Johnson joins Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn, and David Moser to discuss...
Murong Xuecun: Corrupting the Chinese Language
At The New York Times, writer and free speech advocate Murong Xuecun looks at the lasting effect...
Cartoonist Badiucao Targeted in Twitter Smear Campaign
@badiucao #SOS my twitter account is being attacked #五毛 by Chinese Internet commentators‘ slander...
Government Defends Campaign Against Corruption
As Chinese authorities confirmed the investigation of former Vice Minister of State Security Ma...
Mo Yan Stirs Controversy With Support for President Xi
When Chinese novelist Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, controversy erupted—while...
Murong Xuecun: Beijing’s Rising Smear Power
Late last month, writer and free speech activist Murong Xuecun became the target of an online...
Murong Xuecun on Twitter Smear Campaign
The New York Times quotes Murong Xuecun and his literary agent on the Twitter smear campaign the...
Murong Xuecun Targeted in Twitter Smear Campaign
In what appears to be a targeted attack, a ten-part essay smearing Chinese author Murong Xuecun...
Costs and Consequences of Stability Maintenance
At Foreign Policy, Hu Jia describes his detentions and the house arrests between them, and...
Murong Xuecun: Inside a Beijing Interrogation Room
Having described his eight-and-a-half hour detention last week to The New York Times’ Edward...
Minitrue: Li Chengpeng, Murong Xuecun Essays
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Murong Xuecun Describes Time in Detention
Author Murong Xuecun, who has been released from police custody after his “statement of...
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