''China News Analysis'' was a newsletter analyzing Chinese political and social trends. The newsletter was founded at the

University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public research university in Pokfulam, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese by the London Missionary Society and formally established as the University of ...

in 1953 by Rev.

László Ladány Rev. László Ladányi (January 14, 1914 - September 23, 1990), in English also spelled Ladány or Ladany, was a Hungarian Jesuit, China watcher, author and editor of '' China News Analysis'', an influential periodical on Chinese affairs. Biograph ...

, who served as its only editor from 1953 to 1982. According to Ladány, it was "the only English newsletter about China based on Chinese sources," published "with the purpose of serving all those who want to follow events inside China." It was published weekly until 1979, and thereafter became bi-weekly. Following Ladány's retirement as editor, there was a brief lapse in publication until January 1984, when the newsletter continued under a new editorial team. The newsletter relocated to

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

in 1994, and continued publishing until December 1998.

Simon Leys Pierre Ryckmans (28 September 1935 – 11 August 2014), better known by his pen name Simon Leys, was a Belgian-Australian writer, essayist and literary critic, translator, art historian, sinologist, and university professor, who lived in Austral ...

described the journal as "compulsory reading for all those who wished to be informed of Chinese political developments—scholars, journalists, diplomats." Its value, he wrote, was that all information and analysis was drawn from Chinese official sources.Simon Leys
"The Art of Interpreting Nonexistent Inscriptions Written in Invisible Ink on a Blank Page"
The New York Review of Books, Oct 11 1990

External links

Fulltext ''China News Analysis'' on Website ''Ladanyi Verein''''China News Analysis. Special Commemorative Issue'', November 1990
(In honour of László Ladányi)

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{{Authority control Academic journals established in 1953 Publications disestablished in 1998 Sinology English-language journals