Second academic journal, publisher say pressed to censor China content, East Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

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Summary:

"A second academic journal has received requests to censor content in China, following an international outcry after Cambridge University Press (CUP) temporarily agreed to block sensitive articles from another publication under pressure from Beijing.

The United States-based Association for Asian Studies (AAS) said Tuesday (Aug 22) that CUP, its online publisher, had received a request to remove 100 articles from the Journal of Asian Studies.

It was the second time in days that a journal published by CUP revealed that it had received such a demand from China....

Separately on Tuesday, LexisNexis, a provider of legal, regulatory and business information, said it had withdrawn two products from the Chinese market in March this year after it was asked to remove some content.  “Earlier this year LexisNexis Business Insight Solutions in China was asked to remove some content from its database,”LexisNexis said in a statement. 

“In March 2017, the company withdrew two products (Nexis and LexisNexis Academic) from the Chinese market.” LexisNexis is owned by information group Relx. ..."

Link:

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/second-academic-journal-pressed-to-censor-china-content

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oa.china oa.censorship oa.cambridge_university_press oa.up oa.lexisnexis oa.elsevier oa.asia

Date tagged:

02/08/2018, 12:42

Date published:

02/08/2018, 07:42