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“New Fronts in the Battle Over Scholarship and Ideology in China,” Radii China

New Fronts in the Battle Over Scholarship and Ideology in China

Earlier this month, the Cambridge University Press (CUP), publisher of the China Quarterly, one of the most important journals for scholarship on Modern China, announced that it was removing 300 articles from its Chinese website following a request from the Press’s partners in China.

Angry academics rarely make the news, but this particular tempest quickly exploded the tea cup, and even though CUP backtracked a week later, the damage had been done.

Originally posted on Radii China, August 2017