Category Archives: Newspapers

Is the Green Dam filter experimenting on computer users?

Today’s The Beijing News ran an op-ed piece by well-known Chinese commentator Hu Yong, a journalism professor at PKU, author of books about the digital age in China, blogger and oldhand journalist, about the topic of the “green dam”, which has been debated loudly on the Internet as well as offline media.

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The Global Times writes about June 4

The Global Times publishes an opinion piece on June 4.

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Leaking family secrets

Letters from Chinese students to a foreign agony uncle in a a state-owned English newspaper (Part V)

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One year after the quake: cadres, monks and numbers

Southern Weekly, China Newsweek, and The Beijing News write one year after the quake.

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Richard Burger on being a foreign editor at the Global Times

Burger answers questions about the foreign editor’s role, what his daily routine is, the openness of the Global Times and their latest center spread. .

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Just an ice water, please

Letters from Chinese students to a foreign agony uncle in a a state-owned English newspaper (Part IV).

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Journalism at the Global Times

Global Times as a hotbed of nationalism? Whoda thunk it?

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The People’s Daily, 20 years ago today

Another 20 year anniversary.

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A property giant takes on the Xinjiang media

Xinjiang’s Morning Post is barred from communities run by Guanghui Property Management. It strikes back with a three-page feature.

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Promoting the English-language Global Times

Global Times launches an English edition on April 20, 2009. Aimed at a world audience as well as English learners within the country.

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