As we have seen with recent taxi strikes and the riot in Longnan, Gansu, the Chinese government is employing a new strategy to deal with instances of social unrest: report it first and thereby determine the message. David...
Read MoreOn China Media Project, David Bandurski writes about domestic media coverage of the recent taxi strike in Chongqing as an example of the new governmental approach to media control, which aims to “actively set the...
Read MoreEfforts by local and central authorities to control information and shape public opinion on the Internet are evolving. Three cases illustrating new tactics are below. The first is an example of a preemptive strike taken by local...
Read MoreAccording to the Economist, although the Chinese government has recently announced increased press freedoms, the Propaganda Department still controls news over food safety. Journalists had to be mindful of long-standing, but...
Read MoreFrom China Media Project, Liu Jiaying and David Bandurski write on a recent conference regarding the rise of Chinese “New Nationalism” (xin guojia zhuyi (新国家主义)) and its impact on journalism within in an already...
Read MoreThe International Federation of Journalists, an international media watchdog, is investigating allegations that the Taiwanese government skewed local coverage of China’s milk powder scandal. Reuters reports:...
Read MoreWritten by Zhang Qianfan (张千帆), a law professor at Peking University, from China Elections and Governance: Recently the Shijiazhuang municipal government publicly apologized for the Sanlu powdered milk incident. The city...
Read MoreWritten by David Bandurski, a researcher at Hong Kong University’s China Media Project, from Wall Street Journal Asia: Nearly three weeks after China’s melamine-tainted milk powder scandal first came to light, Beijing is...
Read MoreFrom AP: China has issued new controls on transfers of foreign currencies, moving to contain inflationary pressures by curbing the speculative inflows, or so-called hot money, that has been flooding into the country in recent...
Read MoreRebecca Blumenstein reports in the Wall Street Journal: Chinese President Hu Jintao, making an extremely rare direct address to the foreign media, defended his government’s preparations for the coming Olympic Games in...
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