Monthly Archives: 6月 2014

Kazakhstan: Aron Atabek denied medical treatment

Posted June 23rd, 2014 by English PEN staff & filed under Campaigns.

PEN is deeply concerned at reports that the Kazakh prison authorities are denying medical treatment to imprisoned poet Aron Atabek

Poet Aron Atabek is reportedly suffering intense spine and leg pain due to injuries sustained during an assault by Continue reading

The price of Confucius Institutes

BY EDITORIAL BOARD June 21
EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGES between the United States and China have grown to record numbers. With these programs come scholarly value but also risks.

Confucius Institutes offer an example of this trade-off. Continue reading

Hong Kong’s democracy ‘referendum’ — What you should know

 

By Wilfred Chan and Euan McKirdy, CNN

June 25, 2014 — Updated 0111 GMT (0911 HKT)


Hong Kong’s democratic referendum
Hong Kong (CNN) — At least 738,000 Hong Kongers Continue reading

Independence of Lawyers: The Role of Justice Bureaus and Lawyers’ Associations

China’s more than 250,000 lawyers do not yet benefit from many of the fundamental protections outlined in the UN Basic Principles for Lawyers. Moreover, the growing body of rights defense lawyers Continue reading

The Fateful Deception Behind a Century-Long Grudge Match

BRENT CRANE
How China’s bitter disappointment at the Paris Peace Conference sparked the outrage that would lead to the country’s long revolution—and the grudges that persist today.

Published on June 22, 2014

Betrayal in Paris: How the Treaty of Versailles Led to China’s Long Revolution

by Paul French

e-Penguin, 2014, 81 pp., $3.38

On November 18th, 1918 Peking was given over to riotous celebration. Continue reading

Chinese church’s fightback fails to stop cross removal

Another Chinese church is stripped of its cross as a Communist Party ‘anti-church’ demolition campaign continues in Zhejiang province

A crane winches a large red cross from one of three domes on the Guantou church in Wenzhou

By Tom Phillips, Shanghai9:14AM BST 17 Jun 2014

Nearly a week after Chinese Christians thwarted Continue reading

A ‘Wimpy’ Plan to Save the Physical Book

Children’s author Jeff Kinney’s new shop will emphasize reading as a tangible, community experience in a digital, fractured world.

SONA CHARAIPOTRAJUN 20 2014, 1:47 PM ET


Kinney at his office in Boston (AP Photo)
Jeff Kinney, the man behind the astonishingly powerful Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, is leading the revolution. Continue reading

House committee votes to give Chinese Embassy new address: No. 1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza

BY MICHAEL LARIS June 24 at 12:54 PM

The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted to rename the stretch of road in front of the Chinese Embassy “Liu Xiaobo Plaza,” a symbolic nod to the Nobel Prize-winning dissident and a slap at the human rights record of officials in Beijing. Continue reading