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I. The Last BroadcastThe glow of the screen cast a faint blue light across Lin Mei’s ...
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IntroductionIn 2014, a 30-second video of Taiwan’s Legislative Council passing cross-strait service trade was widely circulated on Facebook, causing strong opposition. Taiwan’s students a...
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The Silent Nation: A Chronicle of China’s Retreat from Free Speech and Human RightsPreface: Who Defines Freedom?In a healthy society, journalism is its eyes and ears, and free expression ...
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AbstractThis study explores how Hong Kong citizens utilized the LIHKG online forum and Telegram to engage in decentralized democratic participation during the anti-extradition movement. W...
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IntroductionIn 2014, a 30-second video of Taiwan’s Legislative Council passing cross-strait service trade was widely circulated on Facebook, causing strong opposition. Taiwan’s students a...
I. An Ordinary Night Turned TragicOn the evening of November 11, 2024, Zhuhai’s city sports complex bustled with life. Children chased each other around the well-lit square, parents strolled hand i...
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Introduction｜For Those Who Have Yet to Understand: A Beginner’s Note on Taiwan, Media, and FreedomI was born and raised in mainland China. Growing up, most of what I knew about “Taiwan” c...
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1. PrologueIn July 2022, at 2 a.m., Zhang Wen (a pseudonym) lay in bed scrolling through his phone. A news piece about protests by rural bank depositors unsettled him. After some hesitati...
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I. A Country That Feeds Millions, But Fails to Feed SafelyOn the morning of July 2, 2023, a story broke in The Beijing News that should have stopped the country in its tracks. It was abou...
Luna Tian“They protect the land. The land protects them. Now both are on trial.”
In the dry, wind-scarred plains of Inner Mongolia’s Urat Front Banner, 78-year-old Jiren Huoyar walks the earth of h...