Censorship woes in China

Under Xi Jinping's presidentship, it is apparent that free and fair media reportage is difficult

Chris Buckley  August 20, 2016 Last Updated at 00:18 IST

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For most of its 25 years, the Chinese history magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu has been loved by moderate liberals and detested with equal passion by devotees of Mao Zedong, who reviled it as a refuge for heretical criticisms of the Chinese leader and the Communist Party. But in a sign of how sharply ideological winds have turned under President Xi Jinping, officials who recently took control of the magazine have wooed Maoist and nationalist writers who long scorned the magazine. Several well-known hard-line polemicists attended a meeting with the new managers on Monday. The new masters of ...

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Censorship woes in China