Monthly Archives: 7 月 2014

The Book We’re Talking About: ‘California’ By Edan Lepucki

Posted: 07/01/2014 4:41 pm EDT Updated: 07/01/2014 5:59 pm EDT

CALIFORNIA EDAN LEPUCKI

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My Voice: a Decade of Poems from the Poetry Translation Centre – book tour

July 6 @ 2:30 pm – July 18 @ 8:00 pm

Set up in 2004, the Poetry Translation Centre supports the translation of poetry Continue reading

Tibet: Two Tibetan Writers Released From Prison

 

Two Tibetan writers, Jangtse Donkho (pen name: Nyen/”The Wrathful”) and Buddha, who were accused of publishing reactionary and separatist writings on the experience of being Tibetan under Chinese rule, were released on 20 June 2014 Continue reading

Hong Kong Democracy Protest: Thousands March Through City-More Than 500 People Arrested After Refusing to Leave a Street in Central District

By CHESTER YUNG, EDWARD NGAI and NED LEVIN CONNECT

Updated July 2, 2014 2:37 a.m. ET


Protesters are taken away by police officers after a sit-in in Hong Kong’s financial district. Kin Cheung/Associated Press
HONG KONG—Police arrested 511 people who refused to leave a street in the financial Continue reading

The Zhengzhou Twelve

By China Change, published: June 26, 2014

 

Apart from Beijing and Guangzhou, the other Chinese city where large-scale arrests of citizen activists and rights lawyers have taken place is Zhengzhou (郑州), midway on the Beijing-Guangzhou transportation artery and the capital of Henan province (河南省). Continue reading

The 10th Hong Kong Literature Festival

Enchanting English Poems-Cities and Memory

The 10th Hong Kong Literature Festival

Kubrick Poetry

時間 Time:2014/6/29 (Sunday) 11:00am-12:30pm

地點 Venue:香港中央圖書館地下演講廳/ Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F) Continue reading

Overcoming hostile Chinese amendment, Human Rights Council passes resolution affirming online rights

11:17am | 26 June 2014 | by Thomas Schalke,

As the 26th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) nears its close, the Council today adopted a resolution on the “The promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet,” spearheaded by Sweden, Brazil, Tunisia, Nigeria, Turkey, and the USA. As we noted in our HRC briefing note, Continue reading

‘Picking Quarrels’ Casts Shadow Over Chinese Law

9:10 am HKT Jun 30, 2014 LAW & POLITICS

Protesters in Hong Kong hold pictures of Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang as they march to the Chinese liaison office on May 14. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

By Stanley Lubman

In a Beijing apartment in May, about 20 people met to discuss the Tiananmen protests in June 1989 Continue reading