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Press Reviews
Press Reviews
From 2007 to 2018, and in 2021, the CEFC Research Assistants produced a regular review of the press covering news in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
The news clippings below were collected from both Chinese and English newspapers and now constitute a useful and original resource for researchers.
27 April 2015
Keywords: "Socialist Core Values," feminist activists, "One Belt, One Road" initiative, Cross-Strait Relations, Taiwan, Hong KongCHINA - SOCIETY1. Action plan on cultivating and practicing Socialist Core ValuesIn December 2013, CCP issued guidelines on bolstering core socialist values and pooling positive energy to realize the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation. Core...
READ MORE13 April 2015
Keywords: Internet censorship, AIIB, anticorruption, Women's Rights, Labour Movements, Hong KongCHINA - INTERNET1. China said to use powerful new weapon to censor the Internet// Last month, the censorship monitoring and circumvention project org was the target of two major Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), including one aimed at the code-sharing site GitHub which hosts two...
READ MORE30 March 2015
Keywords: NGOs, "greenization", Internet, Lee Kuan Yew, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Hong KongCHINA - SOCIETYBeijing NGO raided for supporting detained feminist activistLast Tuesday, police raided the Beijing office of Yirenping, a prominent public health and anti-discrimination NGO, taking away computers and documents and locking employees out of the building. // Lu...
READ MORE13 March 2015
Keywords: Environment, SOE reform, retirement age, Women's Rights, PLA, Hong KongCHINA - ENVIRONMENT“Under the Dome”: Chai Jing’s documentary on China’s environmental crisisOn February 28 2015, former CCTV anchor Chai Jing released a powerful, self-funded documentary about smog. The 104-minute video, “Under the Dome,” has swept the Chinese Internet, garnering over 100 million...
READ MORE24 February 2015
Keywords: Chinese New Year, Mao Zedong, CCTV, Western values, PLA, corruption, internetCHINA - POLITICS 1. Xi's New Year visit marks village homecoming, 22 years after his last visit// At the entrance to a village in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, the man villagers had been waiting for finally arrived. They were excited and called him by his first name: Jinping....
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