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...
CATEGORY: China
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...
Han Han: when a culture castrates itself
Cross posted with thanks to the Chinese Media Project for the translation I haven’t written anything since [my July post] “Nation Derailed.” In...
Free Chen Guangcheng movement grows despite violence
Chinese netizens, writers and media figures have rallied to the cause of blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng in recent weeks, facing risks of...
Beijing film festival not banned but forced to falter
Independent film festivals around the world are usually bustling affairs. This was not so in the case of the Sixth Beijing Independent Film...