The ''Chongqing Morning Post'' (), also known as ''Chongqing Morning News'' or ''Chongqing Chenbao'', is a

Chinese-language Chinese (, especially when referring to written Chinese) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the wor ...

newspaper published in

Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...

, China. ''Chongqing Morning Post'' is the first

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in Chongqing, which was sponsored by the Chongqing Daily Newspaper Group (重庆日报报业集团) and is supervised by the Propaganda Department of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中共重庆市委宣传部). ''Chongqing Morning Post'' was officially inaugurated on 28 April 1995, and its predecessor was ''Chongqing Daily: Rural Edition'' (重庆日报·农村版), which was founded in 1983, and was renamed ''Chongqing Rural Post'' (重庆农村报) on 1 October 1986, ceased publication in 1994, and was renamed ''Chongqing Morning Post'' on 28 April 1995. ''Chongqing Morning Post'' has a special section in Singapore's '' Lianhe Zaobao''.

Criticisms and controversies

On 26 November 2006,

Wolfgang Kubin Wolfgang Kubin (; born December 17, 1945 in Celle) is a German poet, essayist, sinologist and translator of literary works. He is the former director of the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. Kubin has fr ...

, a German

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, was interviewed by the ''

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'' and gave his views on Chinese

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, Chinese writers, and some specific writers and works, including some criticisms and

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s. However, a month later, this interview was partially reproduced by ''Chongqing Morning Post'', and Kubin's criticism of individual writers and his opinions on Chinese contemporary literature became ''A German sinologist calls Chinese contemporary literature rubbish'' (德国汉学家称中国当代文学是垃圾), and was reproduced by major media in Mainland China, which caused great repercussions and was called "Kubin Incident" (顾彬事件). In response to the report of ''Chongqing Morning Post'', Kubin said it misrepresented his words. On the other hand, ''

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'' accused ''Chongqing Morning Post'' of creating " fake news". Kubin never said that contemporary Chinese literature is all rubbish, but ''Chongqing Morning Post'' said so for the sake of sensational effect. The phenomenon of creating fake news "must not be left to nothing."

References

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