A recent ad by German camera company Leica, titled “The Hunt”, has provoked ire in China because of its depiction of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Namely, the ad suggests that it might be a fictionalized depiction of how the famous Tank Man photograph was shot...
Outrage and shock has broken out in the academic world and beyond with the censoring of articles from the China Quarterly, a leading journal of the China studies published by Cambridge University Press, in order to comply with orders from the Chinese party-state. Apart from this being revealing about the Chinese party-state's need to suppress information in order to prevent dissent, this may also return to inherent challenges of China Studies...