Since his ascension to the top of the Party in 2012, Xi Jinping has shown little tolerance for “historical nihilism,” a catch-all term for critical appraisals of the Party’s rise and rule. The Party made a concerted push to...
The term “historical nihilism”—which has long been used to label accounts that challenge Party-approved orthodoxy—is again back in headlines and official crosshairs with the launch of a hotline allowing people to report those...
On Tuesday, one of China’s last remaining liberal think-tanks, Unirule, was evicted from its...
At Deutsche Welle, Sabine Peschel talks to Audrey Jiajia Li, a former TV journalist who has turned...
Last month, senior staff at long-running liberal journal Yanhuang Chunqiu were replaced by its...
Two weeks ago, the government-sponsored supervising organization of the long-running liberal...
Last week, senior staff at the reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu were replaced by its supervising...
Last week, staff at the high-profile reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu threatened a lawsuit after...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
In April, liberal Beijing magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu’s chief editor Yang Jisheng was...
Economist and politician Hu Deping may be best known as the son of Hu Yaobang, the party leader...
The son of former party general secretary Hu Yaobang has taken over as publisher of liberal...
As of September 23, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
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...
At ChinaFile, Ouyang Bin talks to former Southern Weekly editor Chang Ping about the New Year censorship stand-off at the newspaper, China’s changing media climate, and prospects for reform under Xi Jinping. Why does it...
Wang Yang, father of the “Happy” Guangdong Model and formerly mooted counterweight to Bo Xilai, was last month replaced as Guangdong Party chief by rising star Hu Chunhua. Having failed to win a seat on the reduced...
The South China Morning Post reports that the website of Yanhuang Chunqiu magazine, a liberal publication that published a pro-reform New Year greeting, was shut down on Friday morning: The magazine’s official account on Sina...
From Reuters: A Chinese magazine has published a memoir praising purged Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, making a rare break with the official taboo about the leader ousted in the bloody and still-sensitive upheavals of 1989....
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