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The CCP has always been invested in avoiding the fate of its Soviet counterpart. But Chinese leaders’ lessons from the Soviet collapse have changed over the years.
Journalist Gao Yu says she is told not to attend by local police, as friends are prevented from sending messages.
Chinese censorship has come a long way. During his rule in the second century B.C.E., the First Emperor of a unified China, Ying Zheng, famously quashed the intellectual diversity of his day by ‘burning the books and burying the scholars’. He not only got rid of troublesome texts, he deleted their authors and potential readers as well. This infamy would be decried throughout