Monthly Archives: 8 月 2014

Emerging Voices Fellowship by PEN Center USA

Emerging Voices is a literary fellowship aiming to deepen program components through increased operating funds.

Since 1995, Emerging Voices, a literary fellowship, has provided new writers, who lack access, the tools they will need to launch a professional Continue reading

Chinese Dissident Gao ‘Utterly Destroyed’ Following Torture in Prison

2014-08-14

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Gao Zhisheng during an interview at his office in Beijing, in a file photo.
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Lawyer For Uyghur Scholar Denied Evidence Ahead of Trial

2014-08-13 

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Ilham Tohti in Beijing, August 2012.
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What Can’t Be Sung: Xiaolu Guo and Nellie McKay in Conversation with Sasha Frere-Jones

 

Xiaolu Guo_Internet_VersionTuesday, September 09, 2014, 7:30pm

With Xiaolu Guo, Sasha Frere-Jones, Nellie McKay Continue reading

Arrested, Detained: A Guide to Navigating China’s Police Powers

By Stanley Lubman

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A Chinese police vehicle. Reuters

Headlines about China are filled with reports of Chinese citizens Continue reading

China TV series on Deng stirs questions on political openness

BY MICHAEL MARTINA

BEIJING Tue Aug 12, 2014 8:49am EDT

A man looks out from a window next to a portrait of late Chinese leader Deng in a gallery at Dafen Oil Painting Village, in Shenzhen

A man looks out from a window next to a portrait of late Chinese leader Continue reading

China detains Xinjiang man for ‘online rumours’

11 August 2014 Last updated at 03:20 ET

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Paramilitary policemen stand guard during a ceremony to award those who the authorities say participated in “the crackdown of violence and terrorists activities” in Hotan, Xinjiang 3 August 2014
Chinese authorities have stepped Continue reading

Naomi May: Scottish novelist and writer who worked tirelessly for PEN’s ‘Writers in Prison’ Committee

Her novels were daring and convincing in their emotional spectrum

PATRICIA CRAIG Sunday 10 August 2014

Naomi May, who has died at her home in Richmond, Surrey, was an accomplished novelist and short-story writer Continue reading