Yangtze News Controlled as Rescue Hopes Fade
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Following a directive on Tuesday banning Chinese journalists from traveling to the site of Monday...
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Today, to mark the 26th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests around...
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Eric Fish arrived in China in 2007 to teach and went on to write for the Beijing-based Economic...
Read MoreTranslation: Public Opinion and the Sunken Ship
by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 2, 2015
As rescue teams continue to search for survivors from the Oriental Star cruise ship, which sank in...
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by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 2, 2015
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Read MoreRebel Pepper Struggles to Survive in Japan
by Sophie Beach | Jun 2, 2015
Last month, cartoonist Wang Liming, also known by his pen name Rebel Pepper, issued a public...
Read MoreHot on the Chinese Internet: Guo Boxiong, Uber, June 4th
by Sophie Beach | Jun 1, 2015
As part of our Hot on the Chinternet series, here are some of the headlines Chinese netizens have...
Read MoreChinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping
by Grace | Jun 1, 2015
At The Guardian, Oxford professor and historian Timothy Garton Ash asks whether Xi Jinping can...
Read MoreTania Branigan on Seven Years Covering China
by Grace | Jun 1, 2015
After covering China for seven years, The Guardian’s China correspondent Tania Branigan...
Read MoreInternet Police Emerge from Behind the Curtains
by SW | Jun 1, 2015
Xinhua reports the launch of official social media accounts for local branches of China’s Internet police: Starting from June 1, internet police in 50 localities – including both metropolises such as Beijing and...
Read MoreNew Laws Focus on “Ideological Security”
by Sophie Beach | May 31, 2015
A trio of proposed laws under consideration by China’s National People’s Congress...
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