{"id":12499,"date":"2007-04-28T18:34:31","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T01:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/28\/a-lone-voice-fights-chinese-censorship-richard-spencer\/"},"modified":"2007-04-28T18:34:31","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T01:34:31","slug":"a-lone-voice-fights-chinese-censorship-richard-spencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/a-lone-voice-fights-chinese-censorship-richard-spencer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lone Voice Fights Chinese Censorship &#8211; Richard Spencer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/_40676068_zhang_yihe203ncn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"_40676068_zhang_yihe203ncn.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/_40676068_zhang_yihe203ncn-thumb.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFrom The Telegraph:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/tag\/zhang+yihe\" target=\"_blank\">Zhang Yihe<\/a>, a historian whose latest banned book was a collection of biographies of Peking Opera singers, has sent a flood of open letters and petitions to the government demanding a change to censorship laws.<\/p>\n<p>She has become a ghostly star of the internet: ghostly because the many posts supporting her are removed they minute they appear. But now she has won a rare victory.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe country&#8217;s chief book and newspaper censor <a href=\"\/2007\/04\/china_replaces_top_censor_ap.php\">was unexpectedly replaced <\/a>on Tuesday, after three months in which Miss Zhang&#8217;s campaign has cast him in an unwanted spotlight. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/04\/25\/wcensor125.xml\" target=\"_blank\">[Full Text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Telegraph: Zhang Yihe, a historian whose latest banned book was a collection of biographies of Peking Opera singers, has sent a flood of open letters and petitions to the government demanding a change to censorship laws. 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