China Regulation of the internet in China: An explainer October 7, 2019 0 Image Credit: Free Internet by Thomas Galvez/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Lotus Ruan. A Great Firewall blocking voices from the outside. A top-down…
China Making history: Bohemian Rhapsody’s Chinese release and the story of its translation July 8, 2019 1 Written by Hiu Man Chan. Images Credit: Provided by the author. The national release of the multiple Oscar-winning film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) in China in March…
Africa The limits of Chinese interference in Africa’s media landscape October 16, 2018 0 Written by Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales. Is China trying to censor African media critical of its policies? This is the claim recently made by…
China One Country, Three Systems and the Limits on Freedom in Today’s PRC November 10, 2017 0 Written by Jeffrey Wasserstrom. When journalists interviewed me during the lead-up to the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Congress, some grew frustrated by my unwillingness to make…
China Censorship and Alter-production November 9, 2017 0 Written by Guobin Yang. I would like to approach the question of Internet censorship from a relatively unconventional angle. While a great deal of research…
China A Tale of Two Publishers: Is censorship the new normal? November 8, 2017 3 Written by Kevin Carrico. On August 18th of this year, news broke that Cambridge University Press was censoring over 300 articles from China Quarterly on…
China Developments in Chinese Media Censorship November 8, 2017 0 Written by Jonathan Hassid. Now that Xi Jinping has been newly inaugurated to his second term as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)…
China New (and Not So New) Trends in China’s Online Censorship November 7, 2017 1 Written by Rongbin Han. Scholars who study Internet politics in China have long recognized two important features of the state censorship system. First, it is…
China The Soft Power of Chinese Censorship November 6, 2017 0 Written by Christopher Balding. Global universities and publishers must seriously consider their response to Chinese censorship demands. A newly emboldened and politically regressive China cracking…
Culture and Society Taiwan’s media: More reforms needed September 28, 2016 0 Written by Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley. The media are central in a modern, functioning democracy, facilitating dialogue, flows of political information, accountability, transparency and popular participation. Studies…