The China Youth Daily (Chinese: 中国青年报) has been the newspaper of the Communist Youth League of China since 1951. It has occasionally published articles critical of the Chinese government.[1]
 Front page of the Daily on Sep 15, 1956 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Communist Youth League of China |
| Founded | 1951 |
| Political alignment | Chinese Communist Party |
| Language | Chinese |
| Headquarters | Beijing, China |
| Website | www |
Background
editThe China Youth Daily was established in 1951, six years before the Chinese Socialist Youth League decided to change its name to the Communist Youth League of China (CYL).[citation needed]
The Pan Xiao debate (1980) refers to a published letter sent by a young female reader titled Why is the life path getting narrower and narrower which generated 60 thousand response letters in 7 months. It provoked discussion about the meaning of life in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution.[2]
Freezing Point (冰点 pinyin: Bing diǎn), a four-page weekly supplement of China Youth Daily was temporarily shut down by the Chinese government in early 2006,[3] due to an anti-censorship letter posted by columnist Li Datong. According to The Washington Post, government censors accused the section of "'viciously attacking the socialist system' and condemned a recent article in it that criticized the history textbooks used in Chinese middle schools."[4] Pressure from retired high-level party officials and senior scholars forced the government to allow publication again, but without its former editor and top investigative reporter, according to The New York Times.[5]
Readership
editIn 2006, American journalist Philip Pan has considered China Youth Daily to be one of the best newspapers in China.[1] It had a circulation of 800,000 in 2006.[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Philip P. Pan (2006-02-19). "The click that broke a government's grip". NBC News. Archived from the original on 2024-05-18. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
- ^ "Cui Weiping, "The 1980s Debate on Humanism"". Archived from the original on 2023-11-13. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
- ^ Geremie R. Barme and Jeremy Goldkorn (2013). China Story Yearbook 2013. Canberra, Australia: Australian National University College of Asia and the Pacific. p. 459. ISBN 978-0-9873655-3-8. Archived from the original on 2020-05-13. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
- ^ Pan, Philip P. (January 25, 2006). "Leading Publication Shut Down In China". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2016-12-28. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
- ^ Yardley, Jim (16 February 2006). "Chinese Journal Closed by Censors Is to Reopen". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2009-04-16. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
- ^ Dean, Jason (January 26, 2006). "China's News Crackdown Hits Popular Weekly". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2024-05-18. Retrieved 2024-05-21.