Search Results for: "propaganda department"

China Gets Tougher on Foreign Media – Don Lee

From The Los Angeles Times: After presiding over the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland last week, Walt Disney Co. President Robert Iger headed straight to Beijing to meet Liu Yunshan, chief of the Communist Party’s powerful Propaganda Department. Disney declined to say what the two men discussed, but it’s a good bet that Iger, who […]

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China: Acting To Keep Out ‘Harmful Information’ – RFE/RL

From Radio Free Europe/Radio LIberty: Beijing has used its well-honed skills in public relations in recent years to present an image to foreigners of spectacular economic development and a “peaceful rise” that will soon make China a major factor in virtually all fields of international relations. Occasionally, however, the Chinese authorities let their mask slip […]

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China Issues New Restrictions Aimed at Protecting Its Culture – Chris Buckley

From The New York Times: New regulations proposed by the Chinese government would keep additional foreign satellite broadcasters from entering the market and would strengthen restrictions on foreign television programs, books, newspapers and theater performances, all in an effort to tighten control over the country’s culture. The regulations were announced on Tuesday by China’s Propaganda […]

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Shengyou Attack (UPDATED)

The Washington Post posted a video clip of the Shengyou attack. (registration required). Editor’s Note: This video contains violent content. washingtonpost.com presents the original, unedited version as it was received. A farmer in Shengyou, China, videotaped hundreds of armed men attacking a group of local farmers. According to witness accounts, the group was resisting government […]

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Robert Marquand: Beijing enforces the party line

From the Christian Science Monitor: In a surprisingly broad and deep targeting of thought and expression here, authorities across China have shut or drastically curtailed college Internet message boards – a powerful vehicle for free exchange, and one used far more by non-students than students… The crackdown is another phase of a broad and zealous […]

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ESWN: Jiao Guobiao’s Final Struggle

Journalism professor Jiao Guobiao, who last year wrote a blistering critique of the Propaganda Bureau, has been fired from Beijing University, while he is in the U.S. In an interview with the Hong Kong magazine Yazhou Zhoukan, Jiao said: Last year, after Declaration of the Campaign against The Central Propaganda Department was circulated, the school […]

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Nailene Chou Wiest: Non-students barred from chat room

The South China Morning Post , via Asia Pacific Media Network, has reported on the restrictions placed on university BBS sites: From Sunday, chat room operators and bloggers will be held liable for any “objectionable content”. Sources said the Ministry of Education had also weighed in with a circular on strengthening “political thought” at universities, […]

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UPI: China forbids reports on mining disaster

From UPI, via Interest!ALERT: Chinese authorities ordered a news blackout on Monday’s coal mine explosion as the death toll climbed to 209 Wednesday, local journalists said. The propaganda department of Liaoning province in northeast China denied local journalists access to the mine in Fuxin city and ordered them not to report on the story, the […]

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Under fire, again

From Economist.com: “The Propaganda Department lost its patience after a magazine in Guangdong Province, Southern People Weekly, published a list of 50 Chinese public intellectuals in September. The market economy, said an accompanying commentary, had caused the rapid marginalisation of intellectuals. ‘But this is the time when China is facing the most problems in its […]

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