The brother of Chinese dissident human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has told two news agencies that his brother is now in a Xinjiang prison, being the...
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Is China using censorship to sculpt national sentiment?
Is China’s foreign policy shaped by national public opinion or is the government shaping public opinion to justify its foreign policy? An...
Yan Lianke appeals to Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao over Beijing evictions
An urgent appeal from Chinese writer Yan Lianke to the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Prime Minister Esteemed...
China media boss says propaganda good, journalism bad
The new boss of CCTV, China’s state TV network, Hu Zhanfan, says it like it is. He believes Chinese journalists should first and foremost be the...
Journalist Chang Ping’s woes continue
China has blocked the website of an iPad magazine called Sun Affairs edited by media rebels Chang Ping and Wen Yunchao. The site has lost its...
Murong Xuecun: Caging a Monster 把怪物关进笼子里
Outspoken Chinese writer, Murong Xuecun delivered an astonishing speech in Oslo this week. Delivered during Chinese literature week, an extract of...
Bollywood censors ban Tibet flag
The long arm of Chinese soft power has reached Bollywood. Indian censors have ordered the makers of Rockstar to cut or blur scenes showing images of...
Murong Xuecun: China’s most outspoken novelist on being a “word criminal”
This has been cross-posted from the New York Times with permission. Word Crimes from Jonah Kessel on Vimeo. “The worst effect of the censorship is...
Who is Hu Xijin? Behind the scenes at “China’s Fox News”
One of the most curious newspapers to come out of China in recent years is the English-language edition of the Global Times. Owned by the People’s...
O-pen Magazine forced to shut by the Chinese goverment
O-pen Magazine was set up in March 2011 by Annie Baby, a popular novelist who got her start on the internet. On 1 November she announced on her Sina...