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Getting your PhD in prison: Jailed Guangzhou Daily publisher earns degree, organizes prison paper

September 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments

From the Shenzhen Daily:

Veteran journalist Li Yuanjiang, who founded China’s first press group and was later sentenced to prison for accepting bribes, has become the first person in Guangdong to complete a Ph.D. in prison.
Li, former president of the Guangzhou Daily Press Group, has so far served three years of a 12-year term in Sihui [...]

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