You are as usual clueless. Read it general. Did you learn those Chinese history text through China education system at all as Li pointed out in his interview?
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"Since 1949, when the party came to power, every generation has studied using the same old textbooks. Many Chinese do not know the truth about their country's history. As a major media organization, we have responsibility to report the truth,"
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Freezing points weekly is up and running again. Who said public opinion pressures are useless toward CCP?
What did CCP do to save CCP party's face?
First fired those two editors who made mistakes.
Second hires one of the fired editor's (Li Ta-tong) wife (who is also an editor) to be the new editor in charge.
Third published a new editorial to rebut the previous published controversial article with a soft tone.
What a Chinese dumb chess move. :-) It is equally dumb with Chen's "cease to apply" move.
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Lee's interview
asahi.com
Asia/ Ousted editor critical of China's old guard
03/01/2006
The Asahi Shimbun
BEIJING--Days before he was fired as editor in chief of a weekly supplement last month, Li Datong described Chinese Communist Party censors who shut down his journal as "all elderly and stubborn ultra-left-wingers."
"The suspension order is illegal," Li said in an interview with The Asahi Shimbun. "It's an abuse of power."
The Chinese Communist Party suspended publication of the Chinese-language Bing Dian (Freezing Point), a weekly news and opinion supplement of the official China Youth Daily newspaper, on Jan. 24, after it printed an article critical of how history is taught in China.
It was due to resume publishing today--without Li at the helm.
The Asahi Shimbun interviewed Li, 53, several days before he and another editor, investigative reporter Lu Yuegang, were removed from their jobs Feb. 16.
Li was demoted to a job in the research section of the paper.
The party's Propaganda Department labeled the troublesome article "inappropriate."
Written by historian Yuan Weishi, 74, a professor at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou in southeastern China, the article said that while China has loudly chastised Japan for using textbooks that do not accurately portray Japan's aggressive history, Chinese textbooks don't tell all, either.
"When it comes to modern history, our textbooks have similar problems to those in Japan," Yuan's article said.
As an example, Yuan cited textbook descriptions of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion against Western influence in China as patriotic while playing down its violence.
The article irked China's ever-vigilant censors.
Li likened the publication's shuttering to an old Chinese proverb that says: "Kill a chicken to scare a monkey." In other words, to keep the masses in line, sacrifice a weaker individual. It's a common strategy in China.
The Freezing Point's suspension was a warning to other newspapers and magazines, Li said in the interview.
"If you carry inappropriate stories, you will be crushed," was the message, he said. "The Chinese Communist Party has no system to curb such abuses of power."
According to Li, censorship of the media comes mainly from an ultraleftist group set up after the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, when the military brutally suppressed pro-democracy demonstrators.
"Since 1949, when the party came to power, every generation has studied using the same old textbooks. Many Chinese do not know the truth about their country's history. As a major media organization, we have responsibility to report the truth," Li said.
"Most intellectuals agree with what our article said," Li said.
Li said the media must be a "platform for open debate." Publications should present a variety of opinions. And easing up on control of the media can also benefit the government, he pointed out.
"If the government cracks down with too much repression, unrest will build up like steam in a pressure cooker. Someday the pot will explode," he said.(IHT/Asahi: March 1,2006)
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