In the summer of 2005, Li Datong, editor of Freezing Point, a popular supplement that he edited for China Youth Daily, wrote a lengthy memo to the paper’s editor in chief, Li Erliang, and the editors’ committee in response to … Read more
In using the Internet to share his views, Li Datong is ‘breaking the wishes of authorities who would prefer he did not speak to the foreign press.’ Read more
On December 5, 2005, the news that 80-year-old Liu Binyan, a 1989 Nieman Fellow, had passed away saddened Chinese, both in China and abroad. Numerous condolence letters and memorial articles praising Liu as “China’s conscience” were sent to his family … Read more
[This article originally appeared in the Spring 1983 issue of Nieman Reports.] Scottsdale, Arizona — Two dozen of those whose reporting from China in the 1940’s helped shape American attitudes and policies in the years culminating in the Communist victory … Read more