CHINA ANNOUNCES GREATER COMMITMENT TO CULTURAL REFORM

China’s Communist Party pledged on Monday to deepen cultural reforms to allow authors, artists, and actors greater creative freedom, Benjamin Kang Lim reports on MSNBC. Li Changchun, a member of the powerful nine-man Politburo Standing Committee, urged that those in the cultural realm be ”liberated from the mistaken and dogmatic understanding of Marxism,” said the People’s Daily, the party’s mouthpiece.