Web Resources

Reports

Human Rights Watch, “You Will Be Harassed and Detained”: Media Freedoms Under Assault in China Ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (August 2007): http://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/china0807/

Committee to Protect Journalists, Falling Short: As the 2008 Olympics Approach, China Falters on Press Freedom (August 2007, updated June 2008): http://cpj.org/Briefings/2007/Falling_Short/China/index_new.html

Human rights issues related to the Beijing Games

Human Rights Watch website, “Beijing 2008: China’s Olympian Human Rights Challenges”: http://china.hrw.org/

Minky Worden, ed., China’s Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges: http://china.hrw.org/chinas_great_leap

US Department of State guidelines

US Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs' Fact Sheet for the Beijing Games: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1762.html

Chinese websites

• China View (Xinhua) http://www.chinaview.cn/

English version of Xinhua News Agency’s website (abridged).

• China Daily http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/

The only English-language Chinese daily (average circulation 200,000).

• People’s Daily Online
  http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/

English-language online version of The People’s Daily (circulation 3 million).

• Central China Television http://english.cctv.com/index.shtml

English version of CCTV’s website.

• Baidu www.baidu.com

Highly popular Chinese search engine.

• Sina, Sohu www.sina.com.cn, www.sohu.com.cn

Major Chinese portals.

• Tudou www.tudou.com

The Chinese equivalent of YouTube.

Blogs

• RConversation http://rconversation.blogs.com/

• BlogCN www.blogcn.com