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This project aimed to understand how critical expressions can contribute to political representation in the context of the Chinese one party state. The primary objective was to explore the discursive strategies employed by journalists and activists in order to create new spaces of representation. The data collection was conducted through interviews with investigative journalists and activists located in different regions in China. Most of the activists worked with either environmental questions of were engaged in HIV/AIDS organizations. These are areas where the party-state has sought cooperation with civil society actors, but they are also issues that remain politically sensitive and offer a vantage point for studying the boundaries limiting critical expressions in the public sphere. For further information about ”Critical Journalism in China: Journalists, Activists and New Spaces of Representation, 2010”, please contact the principal investigator.