June 17, 2005

China Wages a New War on Academic Dissent

By PAUL MOONEY

Aided by the Internet and the market economy, intellectuals are speaking out and paying a price

A year ago Jiao Guobiao was a little- known professor, quietly teaching journalism and advising graduate students at Peking University.

Then the former journalist decided to write a scathing, online attack against the Communist Party's Propaganda Department. Mr. Jiao said the department's officials were as powerful and self-righteous as the Roman Catholic Church of the Middle Ages.

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