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Why Is China Harassing

artappraiser — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:05:59 +0000

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Why Is China Harassing Reporters?
By Evan Osnos, Letter from China blog @ The New Yorker
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2011/03/china-is-not-egypt-so-why-is-it-harassing-reporters.html#ixzz1G4FzpPYf

China Tracks Foreign

artappraiser — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 04:25:39 +0000

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China Tracks Foreign Journalists

By SHARON LaFRANIERE and EDWARD WONG, New York Times, March 6, 2011

BEIJING — ....On Sunday, about a dozen European and Japanese journalists in Shanghai were herded into an underground bunkerlike room and kept for two hours after they sought to monitor the response to calls on an anonymous Internet site for Chinese citizens to conduct a “strolling” protest against the government outside the Peace Cinema, near People’s Square in Shanghai.

In Beijing, several plainclothes officers planted themselves on Saturday night outside the home of an American correspondent who was severely beaten by security officers the previous week as he sought to cover a similar Internet-inspired protest there. Seven officers in two separate cars then trailed the reporter to a basketball game on Sunday, recording his trip on video the entire time, correspondents said.

At least a dozen other journalists and photographers were visited in their homes over the weekend and repeatedly warned not to cause trouble — or, as one officer put it, try to “topple the party.”

The intimidation of foreign journalists is a marked shift for the Chinese authorities and a sign of the government’s resolve to head off any antigovernment revolts....

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/world/asia/07china.html

Curious news; I am wondering

artappraiser — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 03:54:34 +0000

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Curious news; I am wondering whether he agreed to vetting of the songs in the show:

No Longer Tangled Up, Dylan Concerts Are Planned in China
By Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, March 4, 2011

.....Mr. Dylan, who has previously performed in Hong Kong, is to play at the Workers’ Gymnasium in Beijing on April 6 and the Shanghai Grand Stage on April 8, according to Gehua Live Nation, the Beijing organizers of these concerts. A promoter in Taiwan tried to introduce the gravel-voiced troubadour to China last year but said the Chinese government would not approve the shows....

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/no-longer-tangled-up-dylan-...

The AFP article cited says A Gehua-LiveNation official said the ministry had approved Dylan's April shows and mentions that the first promoter that tried last year was stymied by not being able to get the Culture Ministry's approval.