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Freezing Point (Chinese: ??, Bingdian) is a news journal in the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
 which has been 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. A weekly supplement to China Youth Daily
China Youth Daily

The China Youth Daily is a popular official daily newspaper and the first independently operated central government news media portal in the People's Republic of China....
, it was temporarily closed down by officials 24 January 2006, but was allowed to reopen in March that year, though without its former editor Li Datong
Li Datong

Li Datong was the Managing Editor of Freezing Point, a section of China Youth Daily. He was fired, and his popular column closed, because of a published letter condemning censorship and government intrusion into the press in China....
 and without Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
-based columnist Lung Yingtai.

The official reason for the January 2006 shutdown of Freezing Point was an article by history professor Yuan Weishi
Yuan Weishi

Yuan Weishi , is a professor of philosophy at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, China. He was born in Xingning, Guangdong, December 1931.In the January 2006 issue of Bingdian ,professor Yuan published an essay titled Modernisation and History Textbooks, criticizing the official theme of government issued middle schools history tex...
 of Sun Yat-sen University
Sun Yat-sen University

Sun Yat-sen University or Zhongshan University is a prominent university in the southern part of China, located mainly in Guangzhou. The university is named after Dr....
 (Zhongshan University).






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Freezing Point (Chinese: ??, Bingdian) is a news journal in the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
 which has been 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. A weekly supplement to China Youth Daily
China Youth Daily

The China Youth Daily is a popular official daily newspaper and the first independently operated central government news media portal in the People's Republic of China....
, it was temporarily closed down by officials 24 January 2006, but was allowed to reopen in March that year, though without its former editor Li Datong
Li Datong

Li Datong was the Managing Editor of Freezing Point, a section of China Youth Daily. He was fired, and his popular column closed, because of a published letter condemning censorship and government intrusion into the press in China....
 and without Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
-based columnist Lung Yingtai.

The official reason for the January 2006 shutdown of Freezing Point was an article by history professor Yuan Weishi
Yuan Weishi

Yuan Weishi , is a professor of philosophy at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, China. He was born in Xingning, Guangdong, December 1931.In the January 2006 issue of Bingdian ,professor Yuan published an essay titled Modernisation and History Textbooks, criticizing the official theme of government issued middle schools history tex...
 of Sun Yat-sen University
Sun Yat-sen University

Sun Yat-sen University or Zhongshan University is a prominent university in the southern part of China, located mainly in Guangzhou. The university is named after Dr....
 (Zhongshan University). The article dissented from the official view of the Boxer Rebellion
Boxer Rebellion

The Boxer Rebellion, or more properly Boxer Uprising, was a violent anti-foreign, anti-Christian movement by the "Righteous Fists of Harmony,? Yihe tuan or Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists in China....
. Such incidences like this occur in China where lack of government funding, censorship
Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of freedom of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive, as determined by a censor....
 and competition with internet media force editors to report more aggressively to keep up readership.

See also

  • Media of the People's Republic of China
    Media of the People's Republic of China

    The People's Republic of China is home to about a fifth of the entire world's population....
  • Censorship in the People's Republic of China
    Censorship in the People's Republic of China

    Censorship in the People's Republic of China is the limiting or suppressing of the publishing, dissemination, and viewing of certain information in the People's Republic of China ....


External links

  • , The New York Times, February 16, 2006.
  • "History Textbooks in China," by Yuan Weishi, and translations of articles on the closing of Bingdian, Feb. 2006


  • The New York Times 25 Jan 2008.