Minireview: 2018 in Censorship (Jan-Oct)
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 28, 2019
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 7, 2016
For The Diplomat, Freedom House’s Sarah Cook gives a rundown on the situation for Chinese...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 12, 2015
At the Committee to Protect Journalists, Yaqiu Wang reports on the latest blow to the traditional...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 29, 2015
Guangzhou-based Southern Weekly was once considered one of the most influential media outlets in...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 28, 2014
A new trial for activists Guo Feixiong and Sun Desheng began on Friday amid heavy security after...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 16, 2014
Discussing new restrictions on Chinese instant messaging services such as WeChat, Jason Q. Ng...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 22, 2014
The New York Times’ Kiki Zhao reports the sudden firing of journalist Song Zhibiao over...
by Samuel Wade | Jun 20, 2014
Following the announcement of regulations on “critical” news reporting on Wednesday,...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 10, 2014
As a tense wait for foreign journalists’ visa renewals ends, for most, The Washington...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 17, 2013
South China Morning Post’s Patrick Boehler reports that Guangzhou activist Liu Yuandong has...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 10, 2013
China’s Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued a new...
by Natalie Ornell | Aug 17, 2013
Chris Buckley reports for The New York Times that police in Southern China have once again...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 2, 2013
The South China Morning Post reports that writer and veteran journalist Chen Min (pen name Xiao Shu) was detained on Friday amid a campaign for the release of detained lawyer and fellow New Citizens’ Movement activist Xu...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 4, 2013
David Bandurski rounds up journalists’ tributes to Southern Weekly’s former “news examiner” Zeng Li, whose blogging played an important role in January’s uproar over heavy-handed censorship by...
by 不忘初心 | Mar 30, 2013
As low-profile as he is, Hu Chunhua, the new Party boss of Guangdong Province, has nonetheless attracted curiosity over his policies, which could make or break his fortune as one of the Party’s sixth generation leaders....
by Scott Greene | Mar 18, 2013
Mimi Lau of the South China Morning Post reports that despite his reformist credentials, new Guangdong party chief Hu Chunhua has held his cards close to the vest while navigating a series of early tests: His low-profile, opaque...
by Scott Greene | Feb 18, 2013
Former managing editor Qian Gang looks back on the Southern Weekly incident and the factors behind it, retracing the Guangdong newspaper’s difficult past and examining why its New Year’s greeting has long-rankled...
by Little Bluegill | Feb 17, 2013
Before the Southern Weekly crisis broke out last month, one of the paper’s sister publications, the magazine Southern People Weekly, published a scathing exposé on the secret world of spying and backstabbing endemic...