It’s becoming a rite of spring. Around 120 bosses of Beijing-based magazines withdrew to the hillside resort of Hongluo Temple last week, for five days of rest, relaxation, and, when they paid attention, re-indoctrination. All week, Marxist theoreticians and media ideologues lectured them on their editorial duty to the Communist Party. On Friday, they were […]
Read MoreIn today’s International Herald Tribune, Carl Minzner wrote: …… under China’s one-party system. Local Chinese party secretaries exercise sweeping control over the local media, legislatures and courts. Naturally, this breeds corruption and abuse of power. It also means that local party officials can effectively choke off information to Beijing, blinding the central authorities as to […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The former head of China’s top food and drug safety agency was sentenced to death today after pleading guilty to corruption and accepting bribes, according to the state-controlled news media. Zheng Xiaoyu, who served as director of China’s Food & Drug Administration from its founding in 1998 until mid 2005, […]
Read MoreIn her new book, China: Fragile Superpower: How China’s Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise, Susan Shirk counters the prevailing image of the Communist Party of China as a strong-armed, authoritarian regime to show a leadership that is plagued by deep-seated insecurities and fear of its own people. Shirk, who has worked as Deputy […]
Read MoreFrom RFA: China is to step up curbs on the country’s magazines and periodical publications from July 1, in what industry insiders see as a bid to tidy up the burgeoning industry and prevent negative coverage ahead of the 2008 Olympics. Behind the new rules, called the “Regulatory basis for the publication of periodicals,” is […]
Read MoreJoseph Kahn writes in the International Herald Tribune that a strict two-month-long reinforcement of population control in the Guangxi Autonomous Region has led to rioting, arrests, and alleged deaths of villagers enraged with forced abortions and heavy fines: The police in southwestern China arrested 28 people for instigating riots over family planning controls last weekend, […]
Read MoreFrom the People’s Daily Online: Beijing is looking to recruit 4,000 bilingual volunteers to provide language services during the 2008 Olympic Games. Organizers want to be able to provide interpreting services in 56 languages. They need multilingual volunteers for a variety of positions, including technical support for media operations and doping control center support, according […]
Read MoreAsia Times reports on rumblings of democracy in China: Spring has not proved to be a hopeful season in the politics of China’s past, but that could be changing. These days, there is democracy as well as pollen in the air. All this seems to pave the way for the introduction of a more democratic […]
Read MoreThere is a possibility that in recent weeks, a few particularly bold Southern Metropolis Daily editorials, for instance, or hot China Business News scoops, have not gotten quite the Web play that they naturally should. If so, there is a reason for that. At the outset of the National People’s Congress session last month, a […]
Read MoreThe China Media Project has translated much of the text of the new Ordinance on Openness of Government Information. From CMP’s introductory paragraph: As top government leaders released the much-anticipated text today of national legislation offering Chinese citizens better access to information and promising a new era of government transparency, the country’s most elite coterie […]
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