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Feb. 6th, 2007 12:55 pmgood article on yahoo! news on the not-so-free PRC...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070205/ap_on_re_as/china_clamping_down_1
"The travel restrictions came after China's recent ban of eight books, most of them works of history, including one about the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in 2003. The Chinese government was criticized for being too slow in confronting the deadly new virus.
The crackdown came just weeks after the government relaxed decades-old restrictions on foreign media, giving them greater freedom to report the 2008 Beijing Olympics — a move that it hoped would burnish its international image.
But Chinese writers said the tolerance granted foreigners does not extend to those who write for a Chinese audience.
"It's all for show," said Yu Jie, a writer who has been blacklisted and unable to publish under his own name for more than two years. "They're actually tightening their grip on China's writers.
While the Chinese leadership has sought to create the appearance of a more open society in advance of the Olympics, critics say it has actually grown less tolerant of dissent under President Hu Jintao — whose government has imposed new restrictions on religion, the media, political activism and the Internet.
"China did itself a PR favor" by loosening restrictions on foreign journalists, said Kristin Jones of the Committee to Protect Journalists. The move, however, "doesn't address the more serious risks faced by Chinese journalists," she said."
you don't say!
but what happens when the Chinese audience knows enough English to start reading the foreign papers themselves? One of the times that the future-happy Internet-saves-everything people are spot on correct.
read the linky for a too-slight blurb on AIDS activist Gao Yaojie, a chinese mother theresa.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070205/ap_on_re_as/china_clamping_down_1
"The travel restrictions came after China's recent ban of eight books, most of them works of history, including one about the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in 2003. The Chinese government was criticized for being too slow in confronting the deadly new virus.
The crackdown came just weeks after the government relaxed decades-old restrictions on foreign media, giving them greater freedom to report the 2008 Beijing Olympics — a move that it hoped would burnish its international image.
But Chinese writers said the tolerance granted foreigners does not extend to those who write for a Chinese audience.
"It's all for show," said Yu Jie, a writer who has been blacklisted and unable to publish under his own name for more than two years. "They're actually tightening their grip on China's writers.
While the Chinese leadership has sought to create the appearance of a more open society in advance of the Olympics, critics say it has actually grown less tolerant of dissent under President Hu Jintao — whose government has imposed new restrictions on religion, the media, political activism and the Internet.
"China did itself a PR favor" by loosening restrictions on foreign journalists, said Kristin Jones of the Committee to Protect Journalists. The move, however, "doesn't address the more serious risks faced by Chinese journalists," she said."
you don't say!
but what happens when the Chinese audience knows enough English to start reading the foreign papers themselves? One of the times that the future-happy Internet-saves-everything people are spot on correct.
read the linky for a too-slight blurb on AIDS activist Gao Yaojie, a chinese mother theresa.
