Category Archives: Censorship

The global thinker state media isn’t eager to recognize

Posted on 2010-12-02 by Alice Xin Liu

Xinhua News Agency is happy that Chinese thinkers have made the Foreign Policy magazine, especially People’s Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan (周小川) and post-80s writer representative Han Han (韩寒). However, in a post deleted from Xinhua and People’s Net, the cover also showed another figure, the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo. The post is now gone from websites.

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Nobel news blackout lifted: The Party Strikes Back

Posted on 2010-10-15 by Julian

Rebel scum (Wikipedia) On October 14th, the Chinese Communist Party’s Propaganda Department relaxed their total news blackout around Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. Major online news portals, including Netease and Sina, seem to have been instructed to prominently position … Continue reading →

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Han Han on Liu Xiaobo and the Nobel Peace Prize

Posted on 2010-10-09 by Julian

Toeing the line (Han Han’s blog) Han Han, China’s bad boy novelist, editor, blogger and race car driver recently posted his thoughts on Liu Xiaobo and the Nobel Peace Prize. With utmost care, Han Han crafted his post so as … Continue reading →

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Artists and their guides in the government

Posted on 2010-09-10 by Joel Martinsen

Zhao Dan writes for the People’s Daily in 1980 arguing against a strict censorship regime in the arts.

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Hu Shi on “Tolerance and freedom”

Posted on 2010-08-10 by Julian

Never burned at the stake (Wikipedia) Hu Shi published “Tolerance and freedom” in 1959, the year in which the KMT began persecuting ideological dissidents and suppressing criticism of the government. According to Professor Chou Chih-p’ing of Princeton University, the essay … Continue reading →

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White space carries unintended meaning in a print advert

Posted on 2010-04-22 by Joel Martinsen

Intel runs an ad with lots of whitespace. The immediate reaction among media-savvy readers: censorship!

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The Google pullout

Posted on 2010-04-03 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Sinica is a new podcast series put together by Kaiser Kuo and hosted by PopUp Chinese, a Chinese language learning website and podcast series. The first episode features yours truly, together with Kuo and Bill Bishop, known to China Twitter … Continue reading →

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Bye bye Google

Posted on 2010-03-23 by Jeremy Goldkorn

At 3am Beijing time this morning, Google announced the end of Google.cn: the search engine will cease censoring Google.cn, and redirect search traffic to their Hong Kong website at Google.com.hk.

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The other war against censorship

Posted on 2010-01-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A biting, entertaining protest in video form about China’s web controls.

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Dirty jokes by mobile phone

Posted on 2010-01-20 by Alice Xin Liu

Since the announcement that any mobile phones sending sexual and pornographic text messages will have their text messaging function turned off, bloggers and microbloggers have been mercilessly mocking and teasing the government plan

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