Category Archives: Media regulation

Blogspot unblocked

The free blog hosting services Blogspot and Blog City are accessible in Beijing today, after years of being blocked by the Nanny. Can it possibly last? Perhaps not, so if you live on the Mainland, take this opportunity to check … Continue reading →

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Foreign newspapers to be printed in China?

This is from a press release from Canadian company called Newspaper Direct, apparently sent out on August 4: NewspaperDirect, Inc. the world leader in digital print-on-demand newspaper distribution, announced this week that it has signed an agreement with Beijing Founder … Continue reading →

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Media Schizophrenia in China
by David Moser

An original piece from David Moser about a side of the Chinese media environment that is usually ignored by Western commentators, and avoided by Chinese writers working in the Mainland.

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by David Moser

Some photos from Woeser

Some translations and photographs from the recently closed blogs of Woeser (唯色).

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Celebrating freedom, until the next clampdown

At the beginning of this year, the Freezing Point (冰点) supplement of the state-owned China Youth Daily (中国青年报) was suspended and Li Datong, its editor in chief was sacked. Coming shortly after an editorial shakeup at The Beijing News (新京报) … Continue reading →

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Rupert Murdoch and new media in China

你好中国二点零 Danwei’s mentor Rupert Murdoch is talking about China again, and this time he’s on about new media. According to a report on the Australian website of The Advertiser (which Murdoch’s News Corporation owns): News Corporation now sees new media … Continue reading →

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Youtube blocked in China?

Youtube blocked and returns in July 2006.

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Controversy over Chinese textbook revisions

Translation of a forum rant against a new Chinese history textbook. some responses to that rant, and a Phoenix Weekly article on China’s new historicism in the form of a new Shanghai history textbook.

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Chongqing requires all Net users to register

Sohu.com published a news story today titled Chongqing Public Security Burea issues new Internet registration regulations (in Chinese). The regulations require every single computer that connects to the Internet to be registered by its owner with the Public Security Bureau, … Continue reading →

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Ads on the Qinghai-Tibet railroad

Translations from the Chinese press on (a) the loss predictions for the Qinghai-Tibet railroad (青藏铁路), and (b) the banning of commercial ads on the trains.

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