Tencent Dajia Explained
| Tencent Dajia |
| Type: | Opinion blog[1] |
| Founded: | December 15, 2012 |
| Dissolved: | February 19, 2020 |
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| Owner: | Tencent |
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| Url: | dajia.qq.com |
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Tencent Dajia[2] (directly translated as Tencent Master;[3] shortened to Dajia; 大家), also known as iPress,[4] was an opinion blog[5] founded by Tencent on December 15, 2012.[6] It was shut down on February 19, 2020.[7]
Jia Jia served as the editor-in-chief of Tencent Dajia.[8] The blog used to bring together many Chinese liberal intellectuals.[9]
History
On January 27, 2020, Tencent Dajia published an article titled The 50 days of Wuhan pneumonia: Chinese people are all paying the price of the death of media.[10] After this article was published, Dajia suddenly disappeared from the Internet.[11]
On February 19, 2020, an insider disclosed that Tencent had shut down "Dajia" at the request of the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission.[12]
Notes and References
- Web site: Tencent's opinion blog Dajia is shut down amid moves to tighten control over coronavirus critics. Sarah Dai, Iris Deng. 20 Feb 2020. South China Morning Post.
- Web site: Freedom of Expression. 2021-04-09. Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
- Book: Janet Marstine. Svetlana Mintcheva. Curating Under Pressure: International Perspectives on Negotiating Conflict and Upholding Integrity. 14 July 2020. Routledge. 978-0-429-63158-0. 203–.
- Book: Ou Ning. Utopia in Practice: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction. 2020. Springer Nature. 9789811557910. 196–.
- Web site: China's Medical Personnel Hard Hit by Coronavirus Amid Citywide Lockdowns. 2020-02-20. South China Morning Post.
- Web site: Tencent "Dajia" "was suicided". Feb 20, 2020. DW News.
- Web site: China tightens up online information ecology. 2020-03-02. BBC.com.
- Web site: Party Propaganda Machine Wants 'Heartwarming' Tales From Virus-Hit Central China. 2020-02-24. Radio Free Asia.
- Web site: Interview with Jia Jia: The Cost of Media Death: Chinese People "Don't Know Who to Trust!. 2020-02-24. Radio Free Asia.
- Web site: Chinese censorship demonstrates it can afford the cost of 'the death of media'. Oiwan Lam. 21 February 2020. Global Voices.
- Web site: As China Cracks Down on Coronavirus Coverage, Journalists Fight Back. Javier C. Hernández. Mar 16, 2020. The New York Times.
- Web site: Tencent's "Dajia" column was executed. 2020-02-20. Radio Free Asia.
