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A new breed of activists is eager to test the limits of what can be changed in today's China |
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The Price of Muckraking
Pushing the limits of the central government's tolerance |
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Posted Monday, March 1, 2004; 21:00 HKT
China's journalists are increasingly aggressive in covering everything from SARS to corruption. But the gutsiest publications have discovered the dangers of testing their government's tolerance
21ST CENTURY WORLD HERALD
Launched May 2002
The biweekly newspaper was shuttered a year ago after publishing an article in which Mao Zedong's former secretary Li Rui said the chairman had encouraged a cult of personality. Li also criticized former leaders Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin, and called for free elections
CAIJING
Launched April 1998
China's top financial publication braves occasional censorship by reporting on a wide range of stories, from SARS to financial scandals to political corruption. The biweekly magazine has been particularly enterprising in its coverage of stock-market manipulation and a scandal surrounding Shanghai's richest property developer
SOUTHERN METROPOLIS DAILY
Launched January 1997
A medical reporter was taken off her beat earlier this year after reporting suspected SARS cases in Guangzhou, and the paper's editor has become the target of allegations of financial impropriety. The paper made headlines last year by publicizing the case of a migrant college graduate beaten to death in a Guangzhou detention center
BEIJING NEW TIMES
Launched EARLY 2001
The pugnacious weekly was closed last June after publishing a commentary called "Seven Disgusting Things in China." These included the National People's Congress, which the paper accused of being undemocratic, asking, "Who elected these delegates, and how?"
SOUTHERN WEEKEND
Launched February 1984
Propaganda officials have repeatedly targeted the paper, ousting several editors in response to its stories on social and political issues. The Guangzhou-based weekly often reports on the plight of China's impoverished farmers and on industrial accidents that would once have remained official state secrets. But during this year's bird-flu scare, the paper avoided aggressive coverage
Source: TIME Research
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Nothing Left To Lose [Feb. 25, 2004]
Tens of thousands of Chinese flock to Beijing seeking redress for myriad injusticesÑfrom unpaid wages to unpunished crimes to official corruption. Most of these pilgrimages end in frustration or despair
Dead Men Tell No Tales [Feb. 4, 2004]
A disgraced city official plunges to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? Ê
Linglei Like Me [Jan. 26, 2004]
China's mainstream absorbs the counterculture as advertising caters to the young and restless
Unhappy Returns [Dec. 4, 2003]
China's public-health system was told to make its way in the free market. Now, the underfunded network can't cope with re-emerging diseases
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