April 23, 2015 3:32 PM
HONG KONG—A Chinese defense lawyer says he has learned that an interview with Voice of America’s Mandarin service is being cited in an indictment against his client, Yu Shiwen, Continue reading
April 23, 2015 3:32 PM
HONG KONG—A Chinese defense lawyer says he has learned that an interview with Voice of America’s Mandarin service is being cited in an indictment against his client, Yu Shiwen, Continue reading
VOA Interview Cited in Case Against Chinese Dissident已关闭评论
Posted in June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
FILE – China’s top search engine, Baidu is seen on a laptop screen.
Shannon Van Sant
April 22, 2015 1:13 PM
HONG KONG—China has long censored the internet with its so-called “Great Firewall.” But now researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Continue reading
Chinese Cyber Tool Poses Risks for Chinese Firms已关闭评论
Posted in Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
Pan-democrat protesters prepare to go on a hunger strike to call for “true” universal suffrage in Hong Kong, March 28, 2014
AFP
Pan-democratic lawmakers in Hong Kong walked out of the city’s legislature on Wednesday Continue reading
Pan-Democrats Protest in Hong Kong Legislature Over Beijing’s Election Plan已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
By MARGALIT FOX April 21, 2015
T. H. Tsien, a scholar of Chinese books and printing who in 1941 risked his life to smuggle tens of thousands of rare volumes to safety amid the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, died on April 9 at his home in Chicago. He was 105.
His death was announced by the University of Chicago, Continue reading
T.H. Tsien, Scholar of Chinese Written Word, Dies at 105已关闭评论
Posted in History
Tagged Chinese Written Word, Scholar, T.H. Tsien
Policemen take the identity of journalists before sentencing of Chinese journalist Gao Yu, April 17, 2015.
AFP
Beijing police are keeping the family of jailed veteran political journalist Gao Yu under close surveillance and tightening security in the Chinese capital, Continue reading
Gao Yu’s Family Under Surveillance Amid Security Clampdown in Beijing已关闭评论
Posted in June 4th Commemoration, Press Freedom
Tagged Gao Yu, state secrets
By PATRICK BOEHLER April 19, 2015
Xiong Yan, center, one of the leaders of the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, at a march in Hong Kong in 2009 marking the 20th anniversary of the protests and their suppression by the military.
Kin Cheung/Associated Press
On June 9, 1992, Xiong Yan embarked on the fishing boat that smuggled him out of China.
The former law student had once been one of China’s most wanted: Continue reading
Tiananmen Protester’s Plea to China: Let Me See My Dying Mother已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
2015-04-17
Demonstrators hold placards with portraits of Chinese journalist Gao Yu during a protest in support of her outside the central government liaison office in Hong Kong, April 17, 2015.AFP
A Beijing court on Friday handed a seven-year jail term to veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu after finding her guilty of “leaking state secrets overseas,” it said.
The Beijing No. 3 Intermediate People’s Court found 71-year-old political journalist Gao Yu guilty of “breaking international law and supplying highly classified state secrets to persons overseas,” Continue reading
China Jails Gao Yu For Seven Years For ‘Leaking State Secrets’已关闭评论
Posted in Press Freedom, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu, state secrets
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 31 March, 2013, 12:00am
UPDATED : Sunday, 31 March, 2013, 5:21pm
A coal-burning power plant near Zhengzhou, Henan province, illustrates the environmental dangers posed by the mainland’s rapid growth. Photo: Reuters
The Devouring Dragon: How China’s Rise Threatens Our Natural World
by Craig Simons
St Martin’s Press
Back at the dawn of the 19th century British scholar Continue reading
Book review: The Devouring Dragon, by Craig Simons已关闭评论
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged Craig Simons, The Devouring Dragon