Freezing Point (magazine)
Freezing Point (Chinese: 冰点; pinyin: bīng diǎn) was a news journal in the People's Republic of China which was the subject of controversy over its criticism of Communist Party officials and the sympathetic ear it lent to a Chinese historian who had criticized official history textbooks.
History and profile
[edit]Freezing Point was started in 1995 as a one-page publication and was expanded into a weekly magazine in 2004.[1][2] A weekly supplement to China Youth Daily, it was temporarily closed down by officials 24 January 2006,[3] but was allowed to reopen in March that year, though without its former editor Li Datong and without Taiwan-based columnist Lung Yingtai.[2][4]
The official reason for the January 2006 shutdown of Freezing Point was an article by history professor Yuan Weishi of Sun Yat-sen University.[3] The article dissented from the official view of the Boxer Rebellion.[4]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Shao Jiang (17 June 2015). Citizen Publications in China Before the Internet. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 189. ISBN 978-1-137-49209-8. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ^ a b Paul Irwin Crookes; Jan Knoerich (27 May 2015). Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations in an Era of Technological Change: Security, Economic and Cultural Dimensions. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 166. ISBN 978-1-137-39142-1. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ^ a b Philip P. Pan (25 January 2006). "Leading Publication Shut Down In China". The Washington Post. Beijing. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ^ a b Isabel Hilton, "Surfing the Dragon", Index on Censorship, Volume 35, Number 4, 2006, pp. 33–42. 42.
External links
[edit]- Freezing Point on China Digital Times
- "Chinese Journal Closed by Censors Is to Reopen", The New York Times, 16 February 2006.
- "History Textbooks in China," by Yuan Weishi, and translations of articles on the closing of Bingdian, Feb. 2006 [1]