 On 21 August 2017, in the face of growing international protests, after meetings between CUP and the editors of The China Quarterly, and after review by the academic leadership of the University of Cambridge, the Press announced it would immediately repost the articles to uphold the principle of academic freedom on which the University's work is founded.Before this controversy, in 2012, the University of Cambridge had received £3.7 million from the daughter of the former Premier of China Wen Jiabao.The donation was used to create the Chong Hua Chair in Chinese Development Studies, whose inaugural appointee was her former professor at Cambridge, Peter Nolan.