Monthly Archives: 5月 2014

U.S. Teacher: I Did 7 Months Of Forced Labor In A Chinese Jail

by FRANK LANGFITT  May 29, 2014 1:30 PM ET

South Carolinian Stuart Foster spent more than seven months in White Cloud District Detention Center in southern China’s Guangdong province. Along with other inmates, Foster spent his days assembling Christmas lights. Continue reading

China detains another activist before Tiananmen anniversary

By AP News May 30, 2014 1:24PM UTC
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities have detained another activist as they try to suppress commemorations of next week’s 25th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests. Continue reading

Pre-June 4, Beijing security forces hold another shock-and-awe riot quelling spectacle

 

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Chinese Blogger Han Han Takes His Writing to the Big Screen

9:10 am HKT  May 30, 2014

One of China’s most prolific writers, blogger Han Han will soon put his directorial debut to the big screen.

“Hou Hui Wuqi (Never to Meet Again),” a movie about a cross-country road trip by a group of young people that Mr. Han started working on earlier this year, is expected to hit Chinese theaters on July 24. Continue reading

House members urge D.C. to name street for imprisoned Chinese dissident

BY AL KAMEN

May 29 at 4:51 pm

BEIJING, CHINA – 1989/06/01: Watched by thousands of protestors, one of the pro-democracy movement leaders talks into a microphone as he gives a press conference in Tiananmen Square. Continue reading

U.S. Politicians Want to Name a Street After Liu Xiaobo, China Not Pleased

6:42 pm HKT May 30, 2014 

 


A man walked in front of a poster of Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo in Oslo in 2010. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
You say commemorative, I say provocative.

That was the message Friday that came from China Ministry of Foreign Affairs Continue reading

WSJ Archives: Goddess of Democracy Is Erected in Tiananmen Square

11:12 am HKT May 30, 2014

A “Statue of Liberty” replica is erected in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
June 4 marks the 25th anniversary of the violent suppression of pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square — an event that shocked TV audiences Continue reading

Eyewitness Views: From hope to horror in Tiananmen Square

By Alan Chin MAY 29, 2014

On Changan Avenue, a small crowd confronts the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Tiananmen Square after the army stormed the square and the surrounding area the night before. This is near the location a day later where “Tank Man” Continue reading