Southern Weekly
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Southern Weekly is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 06, 2022 and April 28, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “The censoring of Southern Weekly, previously a well-regarded Chinese newspaper”; “The censoring of Southern Weekly, previously a well-regarded Chinese newspaper, is emblematic”. It most often appears alongside Bo Xilai, CCP, Central Military Commission.
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- Category: Publications
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: April 06, 2022
- Last seen: April 28, 2022
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- Bo Xilai (2 shared issues)
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- CCP (2 shared issues)
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- Central Military Commission (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- CYL (2 shared issues)
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- Deng (2 shared issues)
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- Deng Xiaoping (2 shared issues)
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- Elizabeth Economy (2 shared issues)
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- Hu (2 shared issues)
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- Hu Jintao (2 shared issues)
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- Jiang (2 shared issues)
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- Li Keqiang (2 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Along with corruption, he’s reined in media and academia, and crushed dissent. This was hard for me to appreciate: to an America, Hu’s China and Xi’s China just feel like different flavors of police state. But to people who grew up in Hu’s China, Xi’s regime feels like a clear step backwards. The censoring of Southern Weekly, previously a well-regarded Chinese newspaper, is emblematic of the print side of things. Universities that previously had a long leash are finding that professors are increasing getting disciplined for teaching non-state-approved courses, and new university hires are now mandated to pass “political correctness interviews” along with having subject-specific qualifications, plus undergo a background check to make sure they never expressed dissenting political opinions.
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> "The censoring of Southern Weekly, previously a well-regarded Chinese newspaper, is emblematic"
Sure - but the Southern Weekly and others in the Southern stable, while "well-regarded," were never actually good. What has happened is this: factional debate in China used to sometimes happen in the newspapers. It was exciting to read when it happened. Western observers salivated at the access it gave them to current Chinese political thought, which is usually very opaque. But it was always opinion within the current acceptable range of political possibility. No one who thought the CPC should not be in power ever wrote in the Southern Weekly.