China's growing threat to academic freedom
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China's growing threat to academic freedom
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#2nazi germany in 21st century, can’t wait for new wolfenstein
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#3Stulta lex sed lex.
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#4> book of documents relating to 20th century Kuomintang Party history.
Wondering what book it may be.
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#5Stulta lex sed lex.
> Stulta lex sed lex.
Latin for _stupid law but law_
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#6nazi germany in 21st century, can’t wait for new wolfenstein
That is actually a great idea, hope someone from id Software sees this.
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#7> book of documents relating to 20th century Kuomintang Party history. Wondering what book it may be.
KMT is related to Taiwan even though they want closer ties to CCP
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#8Stulta lex sed lex.
"Iwatani had confessed to “collecting inappropriate historical materials.” At the time of his detention, he had allegedly been found in possession of a book of documents relating to 20th century Kuomintang Party history. Unlike the literati Lu and his “forbidden book”, however, Iwatani had legitimately purchased his book at a bookstore."
There is no "law" here. Do not confuse a country with a tradition of the rule of law with one without.
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#9Stulta lex sed lex.
Given that there's no list of forbidden books, nor any realistic way of determining beforehand whether a specific book would be considered detrimental to China's security or otherwise would be illegal, is it actually a law?
I am inclined to contrast it to what it's like in my own country. Canada, of course like every country, has a variety of laws that prohibit certain kinds of expression.
The difference is that, while you may need to brush up on your legal scholarship and perhaps consult a lawyer, you can be quite confident, before you commit an act, whether it is or isn't actually illegal. For matters on the fringes of jurisprudence, the debate whether it is or isn't banned will occur publicly at trial, with reasons given and debated based on the text of the laws in question, and stand as precedent for what counts as illegal under that law.
The content of a law may be arbitrary, but they aren't arbitrarily made up as you go. That's not law then, it's the fiat of a dictator.
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#10Anyone know what parts specifically of the KMT’s story are “left out” in the version of history promulgated by the PRC, such that a full accounting would be risky?
My first guess: the strong affiliation between Sun Yat-sen and the party, since the CCP still seems to respect Sun and his Three Principles and use (their interpretations of) them to justify CCP tentpoles.