Monthly Archives: 6 月 2014

‘Every hour a glass of wine’ – the female writers who drank

The long list of male alcoholic authors is well known, but what about their literary sisters? Continue reading

Censorship storm as YouTube bans Alliance for True Democracy ad

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 17 June, 2014, 3:36am UPDATED : Tuesday, 17 June, 2014, 9:46am

Ng Kang-chung
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Censorship storm as YouTube bans Alliance for True Democracy ad

Video-sharing website YouTube is facing a political censorship row after Continue reading

PEN Alarmed by Reports of Secret Trial and Conviction in Tohti Case

Literary and Human Rights Group Maintains Uyghur Writer’s Innocence

PEN American Center is deeply troubled by reports that jailed Uyghur scholar and 2014 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award winner Ilham Tohti has been sentenced to a “heavy” jail term in a secret trial in China. Continue reading

A Jesuit Astronomer in a Qing Emperor’s Court-How Johann Adam Schall Shaped China’s Imperial Calendar

 

CAIXIN, SHEILA MELVIN 06.10.14

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An Illustration from a Sixteenth Century German Book, Entitled “Imaginative Representation of the Cosmos in the Middle Ages.” Continue reading

How I Wrote a Novel at Work

Posted: 06/13/2014 3:48 pm EDT Updated: 06/13/2014 3:59 pm EDT Print Article


Photo credit: Adams , Jeffrey. “Orson Welles’s “The Trial”: Film Noir and the Kafkaesque.” College Literature. Continue reading

From Doctors to Kings: Who Are China’s ‘Old Friends’?

5:46 am HKT Jun 17, 2014

 

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Ai Weiwei speaks out about Instagram leg-as-gun meme

Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:32 PM EDT

 

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei said Monday that his original posting on Instagram was a statement about the overuse of power in fighting terrorism. Continue reading

China executes 13 people for “terrorist” attacks in Xinjiang

BY MEGHA RAJAGOPALAN AND BEN BLANCHARD

BEIJING Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:30am EDT


The trial of three people sentenced to death for their roles in an October attack on the edge of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square is seen in this still image taken from video in Urumqi city, June 16, 2014. Continue reading