Cambridge University Press censorship `exposes Xi Jinping`s authoritarian shift`
(The Guardian China)

Editor of censored journal says China´s president is far less pragmatic about dissenting views than his predecessors, as some academics vow to boycott CUPThe censorship row involving the world´s oldest publishing house and its most powerful one-party state has exposed the increasingly authoritarian turn China has taken under Xi Jinping, the editor of the journal at the centre of the controversy has said.Criticism of Cambridge University Press intensified on Sunday over its controversial decision to comply with a Chinese request to block access to more than 300 articles from the China Quarterly, a leading China studies journal, so as to avoid having other publications targeted by Beijing´s censors. I pledge not to publish in @CambridgeUP book/journal as long as it is pathetic, craven censor for China #CUPcensor https://t.co/lRos2aPM3o Continue reading...