Freezing Point (Chinese: 冰点, Bīngdiǎn)[1] was a news journal in the People's Republic of China which was the subject of controversy over its criticism of Communist Party officials and the sympathetic ear it lent to a Chinese historian who had criticized official history textbooks.
Freezing Point was started in 1995 as a one-page publication and was expanded into a weekly magazine in 2004.
[2][3] A weekly supplement to China Youth Daily, it was temporarily closed down by officials 24 January 2006,[4] but was allowed to reopen in March that year, though without its former editor Li Datong and without Taiwan-based columnist Lung Yingtai.
[3][5] The official reason for the January 2006 shutdown of Freezing Point was an article by history professor Yuan Weishi of Sun Yat-sen University.
[4] The article dissented from the official view of the Boxer Rebellion.