Continuing our series of articles from Index on Censorship’s ‘Made In China’ issue, Internet pioneer Isaac Mao explains why freedom of thought is what China needs most. Read here (pdf)
Countdown to Beijing, part 4
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CATEGORY: China
Countdown to Beijing, part 3
Continuing our series of articles from Index on Censorship's 'Made In China' issue, Rebecca MacKinnon discusses how online pioneers are changing Chinese culture Read article here (pdf)
Arrests in China
Huang Qi was arrested on 10 July for ‘illegal possession of state secrets’. He posted articles criticising the way relief was organised after the 12 May earthquake in Sichuan. ‘Few citizens trust the government because of the corruptions scandals...
Countdown to Beijing part 2
In the run up to the Olympics, Indexoncensorship.org is publishing a selection of pieces from the current issue of the magazine:Made in China. Yan Lianke, China's leading, satirical novelist, writes exclusively for Index about the impact of...
Tiananmen Square: The hunger strike declaration
Extracts from the text of a declaration issued by four student leaders in Tiananmen Square just before the massacre on the night of 3/4 June 1989