Editor and Publisher, and the Wikipedia site itself, report that the English version of Wikipedia is now accessible in China after being blocked for over a year. CDT has also gotten reports from Internet users in Beijing that...
Read MoreFrom Letters from China: Dominoes left to right: Chen Liangyu, Huang Ju, Jiang Zemin Search “ȪÑËèä” (Huang Ju) with Baidu or Google.cn and you will probably see either an error message or a blank page. It appears that Chinese search engines are ordered to ban “Huang Ju” again. “Huang Ju” had been banned earlier this […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: As China’s leadership prepares for a key meeting, President Hu is showing he means business when he calls for unity in the party. In advance of a key Communist Party meeting this weekend, Chinese President Hu Jintao has worked overtime to burnish the image of harmony in the party, even […]
Read MoreChina Daily’s website ran an article from Channelnewsasia about talk show host Lang Xianping, who says he was forced off the air while preparing a show about the Chen Liangyu scandal: One of China’s most popular television hosts says he was forced off the air by just-fired Shanghai Communist Party boss Chen Liangyu because he […]
Read MoreSomebody got Propaganda’s blood up last week. We’d like to know who. At a Central Publicity Department (CPD) meeting with senior editors on the eve of the October 1 holiday, a deputy propaganda chief fingered one particular publication for taking an independent stab at news of Shanghai party boss Chen Liangyu’s firing, according to a […]
Read MoreZhou Zhengyi, a former Shanghai property tycoon who just completed a three-year sentence in May, is under house arrest in Shanghai, Hong Kong magazine Ya Zhou Zhou Kan said. Zhou had been managing to obtain visas to southern American countries, the magazine said. Zhou almost made his way to south America before he was detained […]
Read MoreMore than 300 hundred investigators from the Discipline Inspection Central Committee have been stationed in Beijing, ready to launch a full investigation into the possible corruption of Beijing officials, Hong Kong magazine Ya Zhou Zhou Kan reported. The magazine said the investigation is one of a series of anti-corruption campaigns Hu Jingtao kicked off to […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: Like many of the oracular pronouncements of China’s Communist Party, the arrest last week of Shanghai Party boss Chen Liangyu had multiple meanings. On one level, the purge of a prominent Politburo member”over allegations that Chen allowed associates to milk Shanghai’s pension accounts to fund investments in the city’s booming real estate”was […]
Read MoreSometimes the peanut galleries on Chinese news portals can be spot-on. Days prior to Chen Liangyu’s downfall last week, even some some ordinary Netizens could tell which way the wind was blowing in Shanghai. Here’s one example: On September 20, five days before the Shanghai party boss was dismissed, Xian’s Huashang Bao picked up a […]
Read MoreFrom NewsWeek International: The ouster of Shanghai Communist Party chief Chen Liangyu last week could have come straight out of a Hollywood mafia flick. The frictions between the bumptious Chen and President Hu Jintao began more than two years ago”sparked by corruption concerns in Shanghai and serious philosophical differences between the two men over economic […]
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