More academic censorship likely - Victor Shih

Victor Shih

The move by the Cambridge University Press to censor over 300 articles from its China website is most likely only the beginning of more government-led curtailing, says associate professor Victor Shih, author of Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation to Reuters. Shih himself had two article published at the site.

Reuters:

Many foreign universities have nonetheless rushed to establish partnerships with China to try to tap its growing demand for Western-style education. Critics fear the universities may be compromising academic freedoms to gain access to the China market. 

Victor Shih, an associate professor of political economy at the University of California San Diego, who has had two articles published in the China Quarterly, said he expected more censorship to come. 

"I think it's the first move among many that are still to come as China tries to completely censor all kinds of media content. But I think moves like this shoot themselves in the foot."

More at Reuters.

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