1,000 politically sensitive articles about Taiwan, Tibet and the Cultural Revolution to be taken down in Springer Nature’s Chinese website
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/11/02
By: Sophia Yang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Another big publisher bows to China’s censors within three
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months and blocks access to articles of topics related to Taiwan, Tibet and the Cultural Revolution. The move has been widely covered by Taiwanese media and discussed with disappointment.
In August, Britain’s Cambridge University Press (CUP) announced that it had taken politically sensitive articles down from its website in China. About 300 papers and book reviews published in the China Quarterly journal had been affected after a request from Beijing, while the 483-years-old publisher made a U-turn on China censorship after a furious backlash from academics and activists.
On Wednesday, Germany-based Springer Nature joined the move and said in a statement that less than one percent of its content has been limited in China, meaning that more than 1,000 articles would not be found on its Chinese website. It stated that the action “is deeply regrettable,” but “has been taken to prevent a much greater impact on our customers and authors.” [FULL STORY]
