Author Liu Binyan After Tiananmen Square, a ‘Dark Age’ for Press Freedom in China Chinese journalist Liu Binyan joined the Nieman Class of 1989 at age 62, after he became a target of the Chinese government’s campaign against “bourgeois liberalism.” Binyan was a writer… August 28, 2014 In Beijing’s Newsrooms In the first three decades in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the journalists called their newspapers “loudspeakers” and “bulletin boards” of the Communist Party and the government.… August 28, 2014
