‘Changing Media, Changing China’ Reviewed by The Epoch Times
Chinese Media Part Transmission Belt, Part Complex Mosaic
01/09/2011
Matthew Robertson,
The Epoch Times
"Changing Media, Changing China," edited by Susan Shirk with contributions from Tai Ming Cheung was reviewed by "The Epoch Times."
On Oct. 27 Cheng Jianping, an online ‘activist,’ disappeared. It was ten days after she had posted a sarcastic message about anti-Japanese protests on Twitter. She had been abducted by police, and was sent to re-education through forced labor for one year. That is an administrative sentence, given by the police, with no judicial oversight.
The point must be repeated: she posted, to her Twitter, a sarcastic message about nationalism in China. She was sent to a labor camp for 12 months.
A trend can often be illustrated by some specific case, a series of events the microcosm of a larger dynamic. When it comes to the battle between the Chinese Communist Party and the media, there are too many such cases to know where to begin. Cheng’s is a recent, particularly execrable one.
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Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS.
She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.
Tai Ming Cheung is an associate research scientist at IGCC. He is in charge of the institute’s Minerva project "The Evolving Relationship Between Technology and National Security in China: Innovation, Defense Transformation, and China’s Place in the Global Technology Order." This five-year research and training program examining China’s efforts to become a world-class science and technology power is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.
