7:30 pm HKT Oct 22, 2014
People take photos during a vigil held to mark the 24th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square, in front of a backdrop of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City (back), in Hong Kong, on June 4, 2013. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
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Tiananmen Protest ‘Black Hand’ Chen Ziming Dies in Beijing已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chen Ziming, June 4th, Tiananmen
Ian Johnson MAY 8, 2014 ISSUE
The Contest of the Century: The New Era of Competition with China—and How America Can Win
by Geoff Dyer
Knopf, 308 pp., $26.95
Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China
by Stephen Roach
Yale University Press, 326 pp., $32.50
China Goes Global: The Partial Power
by David Shambaugh
Oxford University Press, 409 pp., $29.95 Continue reading
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Human Rights lawyer Teng Biao
Teng Biao is one of China’s best-known civil-rights lawyers, and a prominent member of the weiquan, or “rights defenders,” movement, a loosely knit coalition of Chinese lawyers and activists who tackle cases related to the environment, religious freedom, and freedom of speech and the press. Continue reading
China’s Unstoppable Lawyers: An Interview With Teng Biao已关闭评论
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Tagged Teng Biao
President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign is beginning to encompass all forms of thought and expression, even moderate ones, not approved by the ruling party.
By Peter Ford, Staff Writer OCTOBER 18, 2014
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PICUN, CHINA — When she got off school last Thursday, Huang Qiufeng, Continue reading
Sensing subversion, China throws the book at kids’ libraries已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
7:36 pm HKT Oct 13, 2014
A man reads a book while practicing tai chi. Rumors that a ban on some authors has boosted their sales in China. Reuters
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US National Archives and Records Administration
Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter sign diplomatic agreements between the United States and China, January 31, 1979
“Today we take another step in the historic Continue reading
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Corporation condemns ‘deliberate censorship’ as Chinese official claims foreign media are not reporting protests objectively
China has blocked the BBC website as protests in Hong Kong continue. Photograph: Alexander Koerner/Getty Images Continue reading
China blocks BBC website as Hong Kong tensions rise已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Internet Freedom
Tagged BBC, censorship, China, Democracy, Hong Kong, Internet Freedom, Occupy Central movement
