Title: How Does Communism Affect the Lives of Chinese People? | Synonym
Headings: How Does Communism Affect the Lives of Chinese People?
How Does Communism Affect the Lives of Chinese People?
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1 Censorship of Speech and Print
2 What Gets Cut
3 Communism's Toll on Previous Generations
4 How to Determine the Effects of Communism

Content: Particularly now, in the Age of Information, China is flirting with the boundaries of what information to allow within its borders. Although much of the Internet is still censored or restricted, the government understands that, to play a role in global politics, information needs to be allowed in. The uncertainty about which sorts of information will prompt growth and what might endanger the regime, however, is the basis for what Elizabeth C. Economy, a senior fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations, calls "schizophrenia" in China's Internet Censorship practices. 2 What Gets Cut
As the American journalist Mitch Moxley writes in "Apologies to My Censor," his memoir about working in China for the Government-owned newspaper "China Daily," foreign journalists are not allowed to be reporters and are excluded from the editing process. He described much of Chinese censorship as being "self-imposed." Intuitive. Citizens know, or have a feeling, of what they can get away with and what might lead to legal repercussions. A leaked set of government censorship guidelines from the Communist Party, published in the New York Times reveals that no negative news was to be published in the front page of any newspaper, nor was anything to be said of the many "detention center inmates dying during sleep." Nothing is to be printed that shines a light on anything that might make the government look cruel, unstable, or secretive. 3 Communism's Toll on Previous Generations
Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, after the communists won the Chinese Civil War.