Sensitive Words: The Google Files
Last week, Google released a new feature in mainland China that alerts users to search terms that...
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A Message of Tolerance, Unrepressed
In the New York Times, Didi Kristen Tatlow connects the recent crackdown on free expression and activism in China with an exhibit now showing in Beijing of Enlightenment art: An outspoken artist angers rulers with his savage,...
Read MoreWu Guoguang (吴国光): Power Politics, Institutions and Historical Tragedy: Reading Li Peng’s Tiananmen Diary
The following analysis is by Wu Guoguang, a former assistant to Bao Tong and now a Political Science Professor at the University of Victoria. Portions were published in Hong Kong’s Dongxiang Magazine and a longer version...
Read MorePaul R. Gregory and Kate Zhou: How China Won and Russia Lost
A report from Policy Review of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution compares and contrasts agricultural reforms and their outcomes in China and in the Soviet Union: On a dark November night in 1978, 18 Chinese peasants...
Read MoreTaiwan Offers China Model
From Radio Free Asia: Taiwan, which marks its own National Day nine days after a lavish display of communist military power by rival Beijing, should provide the model for reunification with China, a former top Communist Party...
Read MoreTwenty Years On – Legacy of a Massacre
Two lengthy articles look at the legacy of June 4th by profiling the key players. A report in the Age gets the perspectives of several of the student leaders and Du Daozheng, a former official who recently played a major role in...
Read MoreOpenness in China About Memoir Proves Short-Lived
While authorities initially permitted access to reports about the new memoir of purged Party leader Zhao Ziyang, they have now clamped down. The New York Times reports on steps taken to quiet Bao Tong, Zhao’s senior aide,...
Read MoreChina Ex-censor Claims Key Tiananmen Memoirs Role
Reuters is reporting that former official Du Daozheng has publicly announced that he played a major role in recording Zhao Ziyang’s recently released memoir: Du Daozheng, reformist chief of the General Administration of...
Read MoreThe Secret Memoir of Fallen Chinese Leader Zhao Ziyang (赵紫阳) (Updated)
The memoirs of Zhao Ziyang are due to come out this month. A look at Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang — From Adi Ignatius, one of the book’s editors, in TIME magazine: When the tanks...
Read MoreChina Rattled by Sun King Attack
The Times comments on the series of essays Bao Tong wrote for RFA marking 30 years of reform in China: The essays contain devastating language. They will agitate China’s leaders because of Bao’s status as a veteran comrade...
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