For the past five days, the air in Beijing has been a toxic, murky haze, but the media discussion around this sensitive topic has been refreshingly open. From official state newspapers to the myriad online portals, Chinese media have reported unflinchingly on the severity of the air pollution – including the presence of PM 2.5, [...]
Annie Yi — a.k.a. Yi Nengjing, a.k.a. Inō Shizuka, and formerly Wu Jingyi — is a woman of many facets. Born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1969 to a political family with a history of persecution by the Kuomintang, the popular singer and actress has faced harsh online criticism for an extramarital affair and a failed [...]
Following the series of protests against heavy-handed censorship of China’s influential weekly paper Southern Weekend, the state-run Global Times recently ran an editorial that criticized employees of the paper for their protests and their strike. The Chinese version of the editorial is harsher by far than its English counterpart, averring that media who choose to [...]
In the wake of a massive outcry following Guangdong propaganda chief Tuo Zhen’s unilateral re-writing of content in the Southern Weekly, an influential weekly newspaper in China, an essay has begun making the rounds on Chinese social media. The essay, originally published as a blog post under the pen name Zeng Li, which sounds close to [...]
This article also appears on Tea Leaf Nation partner sites ChinaFile and The Atlantic. When Mr. Tuo Zhen, the propaganda chief of Guangdong province, rewrote and replaced the New Year editorial of the Southern Weekend weekly newspaper without the consent of its editors, he probably did not think it would make much of a splash. [...]
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