Type of site | Left-wing website [1] |
|---|---|
| Founded | May 1, 2005 |
| Dissolved | February 22, 2006 [2] |
| URL | www.zggr.org |
The China Worker Net, [3] or Chinese Workers Website, [4] was a Chinese left-wing [5] website dedicated to the Chinese working class. [6] It was founded in Beijing [7] on May 1, 2005 [8] by a group calling themselves " socialists". [9] The editor-in-chief of the site was Yan Yuanzhang. [10]
China Worker Net ( www.zggr.org) claimed to truly represent the workers, peasants, soldiers, and communist ideology. [10] The website made sharp criticisms of laborer and peasant policies. [11]
Shut down
On February 22, 2006, the China Worker Net was ordered to be shut down by the Chinese government. [12]
References
- ^ "China Human Rights Report 2006" (PDF). Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. 2006-12-29.
- ^ Guobin Yang (26 June 2009). The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online. Columbia University Press. pp. 362–. ISBN 978-0-231-51314-2.
- ^ United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (2006). Annual Report. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 183–.
- ^ Mobo Gao (20 February 2008). The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution. Pluto Press. pp. 138–. ISBN 978-0-7453-2781-5.
- ^ "Three Chinese left-wing websites were closed down". BBC News. 2006-03-22.
- ^ "About China Worker Net". www.zggr.org. 2005-05-01. Archived from the original on 2007-11-10.
- ^ "The voice of 10 million yuan and the fate of the Worker's Website". Marxist.com. 31 March 2006.
- ^ Oiwan Lam (28 June 2010). "China: Labour research website shut down for supporting Honda labour strike". Globalvoices.org.
- ^ "China Human Rights Briefing February 20 – 26, 2006". Chinese Human Rights Defenders. February 26, 2006.
- ^ a b "Three civil leftist websites closed before the Two Sessions". Voice of America. 2006-02-26.
- ^ Robert Marquand (February 24, 2006). "China's media censorship rattling world image". The Christian Science Monitor.
- ^ "Stephen Philion Interviews with Yan Yuanzhang, Editor-in-Chief of "China Worker Net"". Marxist.com. 6 April 2006.