Tag: Censorship

  • Nation & World

    Behind China’s viral curtain

    A study by Professor Gary King and two former graduate students points to an effort by the Chinese government to use social media to discourage anti-government action.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    In a land of equality, racism

    “Queloides,” an art exhibit visiting Harvard, shows how racial stereotypes prevailed even after the Cuban Revolution.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Art during wartime

    Alan Riding, the former European cultural correspondent for The New York Times, discussed his new book, “And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris,” in a panel event at Harvard.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Darnton looks at the ‘art and politics of libel’ in 18th century France

    Government censors in pre-Revolutionary France were so hypervigilant that under their watchful eyes no one with anything significant to say dared publish their works in their own country. The solution was to publish abroad and smuggle the contraband books into France where they were soon snapped up by eager readers.

    5 minutes