Monthly Archives: 5 月 2014

Tiananmen Square Anniversary Prompts Campaign of Silence

By ANDREW JACOBS MAY 27, 2014
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A police officer guarded a Mao Zedong portrait at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Credit Petar Kujundzic/Reuters

BEIJING — Even by the standards of the clampdowns that Continue reading

Perfection as the enemy of the good: Weakening surveillance reform

By Binoy Kampmark / 28 May, 2014

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Last week saw a flurry of legislative to-and-fro on the Hill as the US House of Representatives pondered the passage of legislation aimed at ending bulk-collection by the US National Security Agency. Continue reading

China detains Nikkei journalist ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

May 28, 2014 12:49 pm

By Lucy Hornby in Beijing

The Nikkei Japanese news agency was on Wednesday formally notified of the detention of its Chinese news assistant two weeks after she was taken from her home by Chinese security agents.

The detention is part of a pattern of arrests of civil rights activists Continue reading

A Q&A with He Baogang:China’s Experiment with Deliberative Democracy

REBECCA LIAO05.27.14

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A visitor takes a photo of an exhibit showing the portrait of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong during the opening of the world’s first museum dedicated to the Tiananmen Square crackdown, Continue reading

The Translator’s Greenhouse

November 12, 2013Lisa Rose Bradford

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Juan Gelman’s prose poems remind his translator of “eating juicy kumquats, tart little explosions of flavor.” Continue reading

China White Paper ‘Confused’ Over Meaning of Human Rights

2014-05-27

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A an activist marking 25 years since the Tiananmen Square protests at an event in Hong Kong on May 18, 2014 flies a kite adorned with the date 6/4 in reference to the June 4, 1989 crackdown on the protests.
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Chinese rights experts have hit out at a human rights report by the ruling Chinese Continue reading

Engaging China on Human Rights

China is bound to act in its national interest. Upholding human rights is one of those interests.

By Julia Famularo
April 22, 2014

What will it take for the Chinese government to view human rights lawyers and defenders within China not as threats, but rather as well-intentioned citizens who want to help their nation? Continue reading

History of the Internet in China

KAISER KUO, JEREMY GOLDKORN, DUNCAN CLARK, GADY EPSTEIN, BILL BISHOP 05.27.14

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A popular Chinese rock-and-roll band Hua (“Flower”) records at a studio in Beijing, and making their pieces available online, in this archival photo from June 1998. Continue reading