From Wang Shiwei to Liu Xiaobo: Prisoners of Literary Inquisition under Communist Rule in China
Nurmuhemmet Yasin (March 6, 1974 – ), a Uyghur poet and writer, was sentenced in 2005 to ten year’s imprisonment on the change of inciting separatism for publishing his short story “Wild Pigeon”.
No. 13 Yu ZHANG: Case No. 59 (2005): Yasin, A Wild Pigeon’s Separatism已关闭评论
Posted in PEN for Freedom, Zhang Yu
Tagged literary inquisition, Separatism, Uyghur, Wild Pigeon, Yasin, Yu Zhang
By EDWARD WONG FEB. 13, 2015
Wang Qinglei, a former producer who worked at China Central Television, or CCTV, from 2003 until he was fired in 2013 for publicly denouncing propaganda on the network, at his new office in Beijing. Credit The New York Times
BEIJING — As President Xi Jinping accelerated his sweeping Continue reading
Suddenly Strict, Beijing Slaps Its Mouthpiece已关闭评论
Posted in Press Freedom
Tagged CCTV, Wang Qinglei
Published: February 10, 2015
Bring back thought policing……
Yesterday [January 29], the Chinese Minister of Education Yuan Guiren (袁贵仁) called in a conference for the implementation of “The Opinions on Further Strengthening and Improving Propaganda and Ideological Work in Higher Education under the New Circumstances,” Continue reading
Hu Shaojiang： Re-ideologizing Chinese Universities已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines
Tagged China, Hu Shaojiang, Universities
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Pu Zhiqiang, speaking to the press under close watch by plainclothes policemen, not pictured, at his office in Beijing, June 1, 2009
In late January, Chinese authorities announced that they are considering Continue reading
Perry Link:China: Inventing a Crime已关闭评论
Posted in Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged June 4th, Perry Link, Pu Zhiqiang
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I became a member.
Two Poems by Ma Lan translated from Chinese by Charles A. Laughlin.
Read original in Chinese
Writing a Love Poem for a Tooth
by Ma Lan Continue reading
The following post from user “LifeTime” was deleted from Weibo sometime before 8:31AM today, February 10, 2015, less than 12 hours after it was posted. Continue reading
HSBC story deleted from Weibo已关闭评论
Posted in Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom, Li Xiaolin, Weibo
FEB. 2, 2015
Credit Jing Wei
BEIJING — In early November, when Beijing played host to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, city officials closed hundreds of factories and forced millions of vehicles Continue reading
HELEN GAO:China Sharpens Its Censorship Blade已关闭评论
Posted in Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, HELEN GAO, Internet Freedom
By JULIA LOVELL FEB. 6, 2015
Credit Lisk Feng
In October 2012, Mo Yan became the first citizen of mainland China Continue reading
