Recent year-end retrospectives and New Year’s messages published by various Chinese media outlets—including People’s Daily, Xinhua, Southern Weekly, and NetEase News—have offered vastly different interpretations of 2022, the...
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
For The Diplomat, Freedom House’s Sarah Cook gives a rundown on the situation for Chinese...
At the Committee to Protect Journalists, Yaqiu Wang reports on the latest blow to the traditional...
Guangzhou-based Southern Weekly was once considered one of the most influential media outlets in...
A new trial for activists Guo Feixiong and Sun Desheng began on Friday amid heavy security after...
Discussing new restrictions on Chinese instant messaging services such as WeChat, Jason Q. Ng...
The New York Times’ Kiki Zhao reports the sudden firing of journalist Song Zhibiao over...
Following the announcement of regulations on “critical” news reporting on Wednesday,...
As a tense wait for foreign journalists’ visa renewals ends, for most, The Washington...
South China Morning Post’s Patrick Boehler reports that Guangzhou activist Liu Yuandong has...
China’s Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued a new...
Chris Buckley reports for The New York Times that police in Southern China have once again...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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