Below is an article I wrote for Dangerous Assignments, the magazine of the Committee to Protect Journalists: ____________ The Rise of Rights? In Guangzhou case, weiquan advocates find success is tempered by harsh reality. Sun...
Read MoreIn the Standard, an article about Hong Kong bloggers, including ESWN and Glutter: There are more than 50 Hong Kong-based blogs that run the gamut from personal to political, that are adding voice to a growing grassroots democracy movement that may be virtual in presence but very real in the belief it represents: that Hong […]
Read MoreThis OP-ED was published by Asian Wall Street Journal on 27 April 05: It’s no coincidence that the largest of China’s recent anti-Japanese protests occurred in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and...
Read MoreThe Standard writes about Hong Kong bloggers: In the case of a few Hong Kong-grown blogs like Glutter.org, their authors are adding voice to a growing grassroots democracy movement that may be virtual in presence but very real in the belief it represents: that Hong Kong people should work together to form a civil society. […]
Read MoreThe Guangdong party secretary has criticized the Hong Kong media for reporting on recent protests in the province, which have been blacked out in the mainland media. Lin Shusen told reporters that he doesn’t believe there has been an increase in the number of public protests and said, ‘It’s normal for people to go to […]
Read MorePhilip P. Pan just had a story of a Chinese AIDS activist Li Dan on the Washington Post today. “The rise and fall of Li and the Dongzhen School for AIDS Orphans illustrates a broader struggle that has begun to reshape the world’s largest authoritarian political system: a battle by a wide assortment of citizen […]
Read MoreNew York Times today had a front page article entitled “Across Asia: Beijing’s Star is in Ascendance” It certainly raised many important questions about China’s increasing influence over the Asia-Pacific region. The New York Times article also generated interesting online exchanges about China’s “soft power” among some China observers. Daniel Lynch from the School of […]
Read MoreIn an opinion piece in today’s International Herald Tribune, Elizabeth Economy writes that: “Throughout China, people have become energized by their desire to contribute to the protection of nature. In so doing, they have also set the pace for the advance of civil society and the development of democracy.” The full article is here.
Read More“More than 200 leaders from government, business and civil society attended the Global Forum on Internet Governance, held on 25 and 26 March 2004 and organized by the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Task Force” according to a report by CircleID. The entry is mostly large sections of direct quotation from participants in […]
Read MoreChinese Media and the Information Revolution by Shanthi Kalathil In July 2001, a small tin mine in Guangxi province flooded, trapping and killing scores of miners. What followed became emblematic of a growing trend in China. Amplified by the information revolution, the story itself became the story. Neighborhood media outlets, cowed into silence by local […]
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