Monthly Archives: 7 月 2014

Guo Feixiong and Sun Desheng Indictment

Guangdong Province, Guangzhou Municipal People’s Procuratorate for the Tianhe District

Indictment

GZ Tianhe Procuratorate criminal indict. (2014) No. 1343

 

Defendant Yang Maodong (a.k.a. Guo Feixiong), male, born August 2, 1966, ethnic Han, undergraduate university education level, ID number: 42010219660802****, place of household registration: [redacted by translators], Continue reading

Now Macau activists plan democracy poll in new headache for China

HONG KONG Tue Jul 8, 2014 10:09am IST

Visitors try a dice game at Gaming Expo Asia in Macau, in this file picture taken May 22, 2012.
CREDIT: REUTERS/BOBBY YIP/FILES
(Reuters) – Three activist groups in Chinese-ruled Macau, the world’s biggest gambling hub, Continue reading

Audrey Niffenegger delivers the PEN/H.G. Wells Lecture

August 15 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Audrey Niffenegger delivers the PEN/H.G. Wells Lecture

Bestselling writer and artist Audrey Niffenegger will deliver the inaugural PEN/H.G. Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:Remembrance is Not Only a Right; It’s a Duty

by Tienchi Martin-Liao / June 25, 2014 

Between Germany and Beijing: Tiananmen Square’s increasingly complex politics.


Zhu Xinxin white flower crop

Zhu Xinxin poses outside of Tiananmen Square shortly before the white flower pinned to his shirt was confiscated by police. Photo: Courtesy of Tienchi Martin-Liao via Boxun.com.

The vigil held in Hong Kong on June 4 for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:Rice-Delivery-Party-A philanthropic e-commerce project provides financial aid to the families of Chinese political prisoners

 

by Tienchi Martin-Liao / November 6, 2013

 


Ye Fu and Friends

Head of the Rice Delivery Party, Ye Fu, and friends. Photo courtesy of Tienchi Martin-Liao.
It’s a common name, Butcher’s Shop, and it has become a popular page on taobao.com, Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:A Mud Battle Fought in A Quagmire-Censorship and corruption in Chinese journalism

by Tienchi Martin-Liao / November 20, 2013


Chen Yongzhou

Express reporter Chen Yongzhu. Photo courtesy of Tienchi Martin-Liao via news.163.com.

Over the last 18 months Chen Yongzhou, Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:“Reeducation Through Labor” has Been Swept into the Dustbin of History

by Tienchi Martin-Liao / December 4, 2013

The CCP has abolished its system of forced prison labor, but some believe more legal reforms are necessary.

Model of a Laogai solitary confinement cell, Continue reading

The One Book You Need To Read To Understand America

Posted: 07/02/2014 9:57 am EDT Updated: 07/02/2014 9:59 am EDT

By Sarah Jane Abbott for Off the Shelf

Sitting down to write a piece on To Kill a Mockingbird is a daunting task — what could I possibly have to say about this enduring American classic that hasn’t already been said? It won the Pulitzer Prize, Continue reading