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Nicholas Loubere

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The New Censorship, the New Academic Freedom : Commercial Publishers and the Chinese Market

Author

  • Nicholas Loubere

Summary, in English

Since 2017 the international Chinese Studies community has been shocked to discover that many of the major commercial academic publishers have been actively working with the Chinese censors to limit access to ‘politically sensitive’ books and articles within the country in order to maintain access to the lucrative Chinese market. This essay examines these incidents and the responses of the publishers upon being discovered—arguing that the convergence of China’s increasingly assertive information control regime and the commercial academic publishers’ thirst for ever more profits has resulted in a new form of institutionalised commercial censorship.

Department/s

  • Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University

Publishing year

2020

Language

English

Pages

239-252

Publication/Series

Journal of the European Association of Chinese Studies

Volume

1

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • China
  • Censorship
  • Academic freedom
  • Academic publishing

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2709-9946