Aegean Sea (website)

Aegean Sea

Type of site

| Humanistic thought website[1]

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Founded| May 20, 2001
Dissolved| March 9, 2006
Founder(s)| Zhang Jianhong[2]
Website| www.aiqinhai.org
www.77sea.com

The Aegean Sea website,[3] commonly known as Aiqinhai[4] and based in Hangzhou, China,[5] was an ideological and humanistic website[6] that preached freedom and democracy.[7] The website was founded on May 20, 2001[8] by Zhang Jianhong,[9] who also served as its editor-in-chief,[10] and with poet Bei Dao as general advisor,[11] and was closed on March 9, 2006.[12]

Aegean Sea boasted itself as "The Last Clean Paradise of Chinese Literatures".[13]

## Shut down

On March 9, 2006, [14] Aegean Sea was shut down by the Zhejiang authorities[15] for allegedly publishing news in violation of Internet regulations.[16]

## References

1. ↑ "Aiqinhai Network was Censored by Chinese Authority". Radio Free Asia. 2006-03-09. https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/77-sea-20060309.html.
2. ↑ "China Human Rights Briefing April 27- May 3, 2010". Chinese Human Rights Defenders. May 4, 2010. https://www.nchrd.org/2010/05/china-human-rights-briefing-april-27-may-3-2010/.
3. ↑ Nicholas Carlson (Jun 18, 2009). "The Dark Side of Creative Destruction: The 33 Web Reporters Jailed Worldwide". Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/the-56-online-journalists-in-jail-right-now-2009-6#zhang-jianhong-freelance-13.
4. ↑ House, Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations (September 2008). Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007, Report. United States Government Printing Office. pp. 735–. ISBN 9780160813993. https://books.google.com/books?id=O5rs8UkMj64C&pg=PA735.
5. ↑ "Contact us". http://www.77sea.com/aboutus/linkus.htm. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
6. ↑ "Strengthening control of the media". BBC News. 2006-12-21. http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/newsid_6190000/newsid_6199300/6199325.stm.
7. ↑ "Websites Banned for Publishing Overseas Reports". Apple Daily. 2006-03-10. https://hk.appledaily.com/china/20060310/HFXZ3MDF5V2V5ODXFCXVWANYSI/.
8. ↑ "Copyright Statement of Aegean Sea". 2001-05-20. http://www.aiqinhai.org/common/declare.asp.
9. ↑ PEN International (13 January 2011). "Death of prominent writer Zhang Jianhong announced". IFEX. https://ifex.org/death-of-prominent-writer-zhang-jianhong-announced/.
10. ↑ "Lucy Popescu". Literary Review. 13 June 2007. https://literaryreview.co.uk/zhang-jianhong.
11. ↑ "Rights open letter calls for constitutional review of Internet regulation". BBC News. 2006-03-31. http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/newsid_4860000/newsid_4863800/4863896.stm.
12. ↑ ""Aegean" website was shut down and a solidarity group was formed to defend the rights". Radio Free Asia. 2006-03-13. https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/77sea-20060313.html.
13. ↑ "About Aegean Sea". http://www.aiqinhai.org/aqh/aboutus.htm. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
14. ↑ "Strengthening control of the media". BBC News. 2006-12-21. http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/newsid_6190000/newsid_6199300/6199325.stm.
15. ↑ Esther Lam (8 October 2009). China and the WTO: A Long March towards the Rule of Law. Kluwer Law International. pp. 201–. ISBN 978-90-411-4483-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=LouWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT201.
16. ↑ Su Hui, Zhong Yan (March 31, 2007). "China Human Rights Briefing March 1 – 31, 2007". Chinese Human Rights Defenders. https://www.nchrd.org/2007/03/china-human-rights-briefing-march-1-31-2007/.

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