Censorship in China, and How Western Scholars Can Easily Dodge It — A Modest ProposalPeter Busch

ASIEN – Nr. 145 (2017) pp. 75–77

Recently there has been a heated debate in academic circles about censorship in China and the problems that foreign scholars face when trying to publish in the country. I am not going to go into the details of cases like Cambridge University Press or Springer Nature here; suffice to say that they were (or still are) willing to commit to self-censorship in order to gain access to the Chinese market. Apart from that, Chinese campuses of European or American Universities are also facing increasing pressure and interference from officials as well as alleged ‘nongovernmental’ groups. Whoever needs more examples may simply refer to the ‘China section’ of the ‘Annual Report of the Network of Concerned Historians 2017’…