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It's Not Just The Propaganda Department

Categories: East Asia, China, Freedom of Speech, History

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 [1].