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Liu Binyan

After Tiananmen Square, a ‘Dark Age’ for Press Freedom in China

After Tiananmen Square, a ‘Dark Age’ for Press Freedom in China

Chinese journalist Liu Binyan on the difficulties of reporting critically on the Communist Party after the government cracked down on pro-democracy demonstrators

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.…