Monthly Archives: 8 月 2014

Tienchi Martin-Liao:“Touch the Tiger’s Ass”

July 3, 2013

The arrest of the two brave Dus

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Du Bin, a Chinese filmmaker, photographer and writer Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:Eat and Get Drunk

July 17, 2013

Chinese protesters gather for food, drink, and crime.

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In China, protesters use eating and drinking as a cover to discuss politics and social issues. Photo via Boxun.
The 2011 Jasmine Revolution succeeded worldwide. In its success it not only changed the geopolitical roadmap of the Middle East, it also generated an earthquake in China.

During this period a new method of Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Nightmare

July 31, 2013

While the rule of law is far from perfect in Russia, in China it remains a foreign concept.

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Human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong and Continue reading

The Mysterious Case of the Park Poet

JULY 28, 2014

BY ABIGAIL DEUTSCH

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Fort Tryon Park, 1955.
CREDIT PHOTOGRAPH BY GEORGE ENELL/ARCHIVE PHOTOS/GETTY.
During a recent stroll in Fort Tryon Park, Continue reading

Outbreak

Kenema Postcard AUGUST 11, 2014 ISSUE

BY RICHARD PRESTON

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This spring in West Africa, a muttering emergence of Continue reading

Getting Stuck in for Shanghai: Putting the Kibosh on the Kaiser from the Bund; The British at Shanghai and the Great War by Robert Bickers

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2 August 2014 — Getting Stuck in for Continue reading

A Soldier Poet, Baring His Soul-Siegfried Sassoon’s World War I Diaries Are Published Online

By ALAN COWELLAUG. 1, 2014


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Siegfried Sassoon

LONDON — He yearned for “a genuine taste of the horrors.” Continue reading

UYGHUR WEBSITE EDITOR AND ECONOMIST FACING POSSIBLE DEATH PENALTY

PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY 1 AUGUST 2014.
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After being held for six months, Ilham Tohti has been formally charged with separatism

Ilham Tohti, an ethnic Uyghur economist at Beijing’s Central University Continue reading