Disappearing textbook highlights debate in China over academic freedom

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BEIJING (REUTERS) - A constitutional law textbook written by one of China's best-known reform-minded legal scholars has been pulled from bookshops, apparently the latest text to run afoul of a government campaign against 'Western influence'.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

 

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