Hope and Fear in the Age of Asia
from Sinica PodcastThe West has spent decades pleading with China to become a responsible stakeholder in the global community, but what happens now that China is starting to take a more proactive role internationally? In this podcast, Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are...
The News Media’s Mixed Record in Covering China-Africa Ties
News organizations from across Africa and around the world are devoting more resources to covering China’s engagement on the continent. The overall quantity of coverage has undoubtedly increased over the past decade. The key question, though, is...
Chinese Web Users Aren’t Blaming Detained Journalist for Market Panic
China’s stock markets have been in free-fall for some time. Now, so is a financial journalist who had the temerity to write about them. On August 31, Chinese journalist Wang Xiaolu confessed on state-run China Central Television (CCTV) to writing...
Chinese Media Jumps on Tragic Virginia Shooting
On the morning of August 26, a reporter and a cameraman for a local Virginia television station were fatally shot during a live television...
Clickbait Nationalism
On July 16, the lower house of the Japanese Parliament passed a set of new...
A Kenyan Columnist’s Provocative Views on the Chinese in Africa
In Mark Kapchanga’s view, the West, particularly the media, really does not understand what the Chinese are doing in Africa. Kapchanga, a provocative Nairobi-based journalist and columnist, isn’t shy in arguing his case that on balance China’s...
Taming the Flood
In August 1975, Typhoon Nina, one of the most powerful tropical storms on record, surged inland from the Taiwan Strait, causing floods so catastrophic they overwhelmed dam networks...
Episode 36 – Sim Chi Yin
Sharron Lovell speaks with Sim Chi Yin about crossing the lines between journalism and advocacy. Chi Yin recently published her four year story following a Chinese gold miner suffering with the lung disease silicosis, caused by years of inhaling...
Writers: Heroes in China?
from Sinica PodcastIf you happen to live in the anglophone world and aren’t closely tied to China by blood or professional ties, chances are that what you believe to be true about this country is heavily influenced by the opinions of perhaps one hundred other...
Censorship and Conscience
In this report, PEN American Center (PEN) examines how foreign authors in particular are navigating the heavily censored Chinese book industry. China is one of the largest book publishing markets in the world, with total revenue projected to...
An American Hero in China
from New York Review of BooksOne night in September, three hundred people crowded into the basement auditorium of an office tower in Beijing to hear a discussion between two of China’s most popular writers. One was Liu Yu, a thirty-eight-year-old political...
10 Most Censored Countries
For more than 10 years, China has been among the top 3 jailers of journalists in the world, a distinction that it is unlikely to lose soon.
US and EU Criticise Chinese Journalist’s Jailing for ‘Leaking State Secrets’
Gao Yu vows to appeal her 7-yr sentence for allegedly leaking Document 9, revealing Party hostility to human rights.
Opinion: Gao Yu Verdict Sends Clear Message to Regime Critics in China
Chinese journalist Gao Yu's seven year sentence again shows how Beijing authorities deal with critics of the regime.
Henry Paulson: ‘Dealing with China’
from Asia BlogSpeaking at Asia Society New York on April 13 with New Yorker correspondent Evan Osnos, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson explained that it’s...
Fifty Shades of Xi
China’s confessional politics of dominance.
How China Uses J-Visas to Punish International Media for Critical Coverage
A new report finds Chinese authorities are "treating journalistic accreditation as a privilege rather than a professional right."
The Changing Look of China, Myanmar, and Visual Journalism—A Chat With Jonah Kessel
from Sinica PodcastThis week on Sinica, Jeremy and Kaiser are joined by Jonah M. Kessel, former freelance photographer and now full-time videographer for The New York Times who has covered a wide range of China stories, traveled widely through the country...
Paper Published by Communist Party Endorses Charge Against Veteran Journalist Gao Yu
Gao, 70, denied the charges in a closed-door hearing on Friday. She faces a maximum sentence of death. The document in question is believed to outline curbs on the spread of Western civil liberties in China.
“Getting Pantsed” by the “Central People’s Court”
In December of last year CCTV producer Wang Qinglei wrote a post on his Weibo account criticizing the Chinese government’s campaign-style attacks on prominent social media figures and arguing the media had also been drawn in and was “sidestepping...
Media Portrays Hong Kong Protests as Either Inspiring or Dangerous
The second and third days of mass protests to demand broader democracy in Hong Kong ended with none of the violence...
Foreign Journalists in China See Decline in Reporting Conditions
Conditions for foreign journalists working in China have gone from bad to worse over the past year, according to a report issued on Friday by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China.
New Political News Website Scolded by Party Propaganda Officials for 'Incorrect Practices'
Thepaper.cn given a 'stern warning' after it likely irked propaganda officials.
He Exposed Corrupt China Before He Left
from New York Review of BooksIn the late 1970s, when the passing of Mao made it possible for foreign journalists to work in China for the first time in three decades, the first reporters to get in wrote wide-ranging books that addressed nearly everything they could learn....
The War of Words in China
These are challenging days for foreigners in China, who in the past year or so have increasingly found themselves caught up in a war of words that paint Westerners as conscripts in the army of “hostile foreign forces” seeking to thwart China’s...
How to Read China’s New Press Restrictions
On June 30, China's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television posted a statement on its website warning Chinese journalists not to share...
Advice for Journalists in China: Hire a Lawyer
This week, hundreds of thousands of Chinese journalists are expected to receive their new official press cards. But to qualify, they each had to sit a new exam designed to strengthen their ethics, professional conduct and knowledge of Marxist...
Sin and Vice
from Sinica PodcastThis week on Sinica, Jeremy Goldkorn and David Moser turn their attention to vice, in conversation with Robert Foyle Hunwick, a media consultant and editor for Beijing Cream. We talk about...
Isolda Morillo: Una Vida en China
from Sinica PodcastThis week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy are delighted to be joined by Isolda Morillo, a Peruvian journalist for the Associated Press whose life story is as interesting as they come. Growing up in Beijing in the 1980s, where she attended local...
China Bans Unauthorized Critical Coverage by Journalists
Reporters in China are forbidden from publishing critical reports without the approval of their employer, one of China’s top media regulators said on Wednesday.
Age of Ambition
From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy—or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. What we don’t see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes.
Tiananmen: How Wrong We Were
from New York Review of BooksTwenty-five years ago to the day I write this, I watched and listened as thousands of Chinese citizens in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square dared to condemn their leaders. Some shouted “Premier Li Peng resign.” Even braver ones cried “Down with Deng...
I Sold Out to China
You know that censorship has won its war on truth-telling when journalists happily police themselves.
U.S. Ambassador Urges China to Respect Human Rights
At his final news conference as ambassador, Gary Locke said that Washington is "very concerned" about the case of a minority scholar charged with separatism and a recent increase in the arrests of activists and journalists.
Press Barred From Dalai Lama Meeting
The White House press corps is once again protesting its lack of access to the president, this time after it was barred from photographing the meeting between Obama and the Dalai Lama.
Two New Reports Slam Hong Kong Media Self-Censorship
Hong Kong fell to 61st in the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index, behind Burkina Faso, Moldova and Haiti.
Why Chinese Media Is Going Soft on Sochi
Ready or not, Putingrad (aka Sochi) is now on prime time. The opening ceremony of the Winter...
What Should the U.S. Do about China’s Barring Foreign Reporters?
Last week, the White House said it was “very disappointed” in China for denying a visa to...
The State of Journalism in China
The Communist Party has long striven to control freedom of speech in China. Websites from around the world are blocked. Major social media cannot be accessed, and advanced software is used to delete “sensitive” entries from the Internet. Domestic...
White House ‘Very Disappointed’ NYT Reporter was Forced to Leave China
The statement also raised concerns about the treatment of foreign journalists in China.
Beijing Forces U.S. Reporter to Leave China
“The government is punishing the Times for the content of its coverage...it seems as simple as that.”
China Appears Set to Force Times Reporter to Leave
Austin Ramzy is the most recent of such journalists since a critical article about Wen Jiabao and his family was written in 2013.
Back in China, Watching My Words
Back in China after many years in the U.S., Yuxin Gao feels alienated and silenced, and many ask why she returned.
2013, According to the Chinese Communist Party
What did the year in foreign policy look like in Chinese official circles? Divining the thoughts and motives of China’s leadership is a famously abstruse exercise even for Chinese citizens, who are often left to parse bland quotes or keep their...
Are You Qualified to Be a Journalist in China? Take the Test
The test is seen as another step in tightening the party’s control over media. At a conference in August, President Xi Jinping called for the “consolidation of mainstream ideology and opinion” to ensure a correct political direction by media...
Will China Shut Out the Foreign Press?
Some two dozen journalists employed by The New York Times and Bloomberg News have not yet received the visas they need to continue to report and live in China after the end of this year. Without them, they will effectively be expelled from the...
One Journalist’s Journey through China
from Sinica PodcastThis week, Kaiser and Jeremy are pleased to be joined by Isabel Hilton, a longstanding British journalist whose youthful interest in China got her blacklisted by the British security services and the British Broadcasting Corporation and...
Former Committee to Protect Journalists Honoree Says Bloomberg Chief Should Not Chair Press Freedom Dinner
A prominent Hong Kong-based journalist has called on Daniel Doctoroff, Chief Executive Officer of Bloomberg L.P., to step down from his role as chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) annual...
Doubling Down on Dengism
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It’s an all-American (and all-star) lineup of guests this week, as Bill Bishop, Gady Epstein, and James Fallows join Kaiser for an in-depth discussion of the Third Plenary Session, the outcome of which has produced a...
What Do Investigative Reporters Do?
With the recent Chen Yongzhou scandal, many have called for an “investigation” into the investigative reporting...
