By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW MAY 21, 2014 6:00 PM
Creating and consuming the erotic fiction known as danmei is a vehicle for young Chinese women to explore new identities.
Sean Yong/Reuters
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW MAY 21, 2014 6:00 PM
Creating and consuming the erotic fiction known as danmei is a vehicle for young Chinese women to explore new identities.
Sean Yong/Reuters
Why Many Young Chinese Women Are Writing Gay Male Erotica已关闭评论
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Tagged Chinese Women, Gay Male Erotica
TEA LEAF NATION05.19.14
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A Uighur vendor pushes his cart of watermelons past Chinese soldiers on patrol in Urumqi in northwest China’s Xinjiang province on July 15, 2009. Security remained tight in Urumqi’s Muslim Uighur district 10 days after strong ethnic violence broke out on July 5 and riot police maintained their presence and kept control of the area’s main bazaar.
Rights lawyers Tang Jingling and Liu Shihui are among the latest to be detained as the government seeks to suppress commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown’s 25th anniversary next month. From AP’s Didi Tang:
As of May 12, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user” function).
Sensitive Words: Speech Essence Research Center已关闭评论
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Tagged Internet Freedom, Pu Zhiqiang, Sensitive Words
As the 25th anniversary of the June 4th, 1989 crackdown on protest in Tiananmen square grows ever nearer, names are being added to the list of those detained, placed under house arrest, or questioned by authorities as the central government makes efforts to conceal commemoration of that unfortunate date 25 years ago (for up-to-date records of detentions, house-arrests, and other restrictions, see lists from Human Rights in China and Amnesty International).
A few brave souls risk beatings and detention as they seek fairness for their clients … and country
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 20 May, 2014, 4:04am
UPDATED : Tuesday, 20 May, 2014, 4:04am
By Karen Lee
China’s rights lawyers willing to pay for progress已关闭评论
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Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Jiang Tianyong
20 May 2014
Ti-Anna’s father, Wang Bingzhang, who is currently in prison in China, named her after Tiananmen Square.Ti-Anna’s father, Wang Bingzhang, who is currently in prison in China, named her after Tiananmen Square.© Ti-Anna Wang.
A child of Tiananmen – young activist campaigns for her father’s release from jail已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged June 4th, Ti-Anna Wang, Tiananmen, Wang Bingzhang