US Professor’s Lecture Canceled in China After Netizens Discover His Criticisms of Chinese Regime

US Professor’s Lecture Canceled in China After Netizens Discover His Criticisms of Chinese Regime
People surf the internet at a cyber cafe in Chongqing, a megacity in southwestern China, on Jan. 24, 2007. China Photos/Getty Images
Frank Fang
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A Chinese university canceled a visiting U.S. professor’s lecture after the school’s social media account was flooded with comments critical of the scholar.
Professor Ma Haiyun, an associate professor of history at Frostburg State University in Maryland, was scheduled to give a lecture at Jinan University, located in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.
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Frank Fang is a Taiwan-based journalist. He covers U.S., China, and Taiwan news. He holds a master's degree in materials science from Tsinghua University in Taiwan.
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