Yuan Huang

Yuan Huang is a freelance writer and translator living in London.

National Trolls: Censorship in China

Yuan Huang, 5 October 2017

Last month​ in an open letter, the editor of China Quarterly, Tim Pringle, reported that more than three hundred articles deemed ‘sensitive’ by the Chinese censors had been blocked in mainland China. The letter caused outrage among Sinologists. CQ’s publisher, Cambridge University Press, appeared to have complied out of fear that failure to do so would cost it its entire...

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