The NYRB China Archive
02.19.19
‘It’s Hopeless But You Persist’: An Interview with Jiang Xue
from New York Review of Books
The forty-five-year-old investigative journalist Jiang Xue is one of the most influential members of a group of journalists who came of age in the early 2000s, taking advantage of new—if temporary—freedoms created by the Internet to investigate...
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11.30.15
Court in China Adds Last-Minute Charge Against Rights Leader During Sentencing
from China Change
On August 8, 2013, Guo Feixiong (real name Yang Maodong) was arrested and then indicted on charges of “gathering a crowd to disrupt order in a public place.” The heavy sentence came as a shock to everyone following the case. More shockingly, the...
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10.20.14‘A Power Capable of Making Us Weep’
This September, the editors of the online edition of the 21st Century Business Herald—a leading Chinese business newspaper based in Guangzhou and owned by Southern Media Group (Nanfang Baoye Jituan)—came under investigation on charges of extortion...
Video
04.05.13
Censored: A Chinese Journalist’s Inside View
from Committee to Protect Journalists
Journalist Liu Jianfeng worked at the China Economic Times newspaper in Beijing for fifteen years. Eventually, frustration with the nation’s state-controlled media system and pressure from his colleagues prompted him to quit. He then did brief...
Media
02.04.13
Media Censorship and Its Future
The year 2013 has gotten off to an inauspicious start for China’s press, especially for its most outspoken members. At the end of last year, when many of the country’s media were heralding newly installed Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to...
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01.14.13China's Press Freedom Goes South
Foreign Policy
Censorship is commonplace, but is usually more subtle, with directives described over the phone rather than by email (where it leaves a trail).
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01.11.13China Said to Crack Down on Censorship Protests
New York Times
People across China have been detained or questioned for supporting protesting Southern Weekend journalists.
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01.10.13Censored China Newspaper Returns to Publishing Amid Struggles
New York Times
Propaganda officials in south China have agreed to loosen controls over a newspaper struggling against censorship.
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01.09.13A Bowl of Hot Porridge: A Song for Southern Weekend
China Media Project
The Beijing News published a loving tribute, yes, to porridge. In particular, to the porridge of the south. But it is really a song of love and support for Southern Weekly.
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01.08.13Solzhenitsyn, Yao Chen, and Chinese Reform
New Yorker
When a Chinese ingénue, beloved for comedy, doe-eyed looks, and middle-class charm, tweets Solzhenitsyn's words, we may be seeing a new relationship between technology, politics, and Chinese prosperity.
Media
01.08.13
Online and Off, Social Media Users Go to War for Freedom of Press in China
When Mr. Tuo Zhen, the propaganda chief of Guangdong province, rewrote and replaced the New Year’s editorial of the Southern Weekend newspaper without the consent of its editors, he probably did not think it would make much of a splash. Indeed, Mr...
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01.08.13Inside the Southern Weekly Incident
China Media Project
A Hong Kong University media scholar's review of the strife that led to a strike at one of China's most influential newspapers.
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01.08.13Censorship Protest a Test for Reform-minded China
CNN
For two days, journalists at the Southern Weekly offices and hundreds of their supporters called for free speech.
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01.08.13The Old Fears of China’s New Leaders
from New York Review of Books
I felt a shudder of déjà vu watching the mounting protests inside China this week of the Communist Party for censoring an editorial in Southern Weekend, a well-known liberal newspaper in the southern city of Guangzhou. It is all too similar to the...
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01.07.13Supporters Back Strike and Newspaper in China
New York Times
Hundreds gathered outside the headquarters of a newspaper office in southern China to support journalists who had declared a strike to protest censorship by officials.