It’s Not Just The Propaganda Department · Global Voices
Tian Yi

The liberal Chinese newspaper supplement magazine, Freezing Point, was recently closed by the government.  The ostensible reason was a long study the magazine published on revaluating the modern Chinese history taught in middle schools.  Letters from China points to a Chinese reader's essay to highlight that the aversion to revisit history is not just limited to government censors, but also shared by the population.