Case comes after controversy caused by the disappearance of five booksellers in Hong Kong in an apparent crackdown on the sale of works critical of China’s government
Jun Mai, [email protected]
Yuan Yulai is well known for this legal battles against government departments. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Yuan Yulai, 61, known for high-profile cases has he brought against government departments and ministries, filed the lawsuit in Zhejiang province on Monday. Continue reading
Chinese rights lawyer takes legal action after Hong Kong, Taiwan-published books seized已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, censorship, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Yuan Yulai
Both Lee and Gui later denied in mainland China that any abduction had taken place – but an email obtained by the South China Morning Post says otherwise
Phila Siu, [email protected]
Gui Minhai appears on state television. Lee Po feared he was taken by mainland Chinese agents while he was in Thailand. Photo: Phoenix TV
Exclusive: Email reveals Lee Po feared Gui Minhai kidnapped by Chinese agents before he himself disappeared已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, Causeway Bay Books, disappearance, email, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lee Po
By Alexander C. Cook
[Editors’ note: This is the first of a two-part roundtable interview we invited Alexander C. Cook, editor of the well-received Cambridge University Press book Mao’s Little Red Book: A Global History, to conduct with four scholars who have been doing important work on the final decade of Mao Zedong’s rule and were part of a recent American Historical Association panel that he chaired.] Continue reading
The Cultural Revolution at 50: A Q&A with Four Specialists (Part One)已关闭评论
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged Alexander C. Cook, Cultural Revolution, Daniel Leese, Denise Ho, Fabio Lanza, textbook, Yiching Wu
Saturday 2 April, 2:00 pm—9:30 pm |Free
As part of the Enemies Project, over 30 contemporary English writers will present new works in tribute to writers at risk around the world.
On 2 April 2016, over 30 writers, poets, novelists, playwrights and artists will come together to celebrate English PEN’s Writers at Risk programme and the incredible individuals we support. Continue reading
The English PEN Modern Literature Festival已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, PEN International News, Support Liu Xiaobo
Tagged English PEN, Literature, Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo, Zhu Yufu
A screen shot of a Tweet shows an edition of the Southern Metropolis Daily with headlines that when read together appear spell out an anti-propaganda message. RFA
An editor at a cutting-edge newspaper in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong was fired and another slapped with an official warning for “political problems” after a recent edition of the paper ran two coinciding headlines that spelled out an anti-propaganda message, sources told RFA. Continue reading
Chinese Editors Punished For ‘Political Mistakes’ Over Headline Acrostic已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged dismissal, Guangdong, Liu Yuxia, Southern Metropolis Daily, Xi Jinping
Placards showing missing bookseller Lee Bo (L) and his associate Gui Minhai (R) outside the China liaison office in Hong Kong, Jan. 19, 2016. AFP
The first of five Hong Kong booksellers detained in mainland China since October over sales of political books across the internal border has returned to the city, local media reported on Friday. Continue reading
Hong Kong Bookseller Returns Home, ‘Refuses to Discuss Details’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Causeway Bay Books, confession, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Illegal business, Lui Por
All the men were linked to a bookshop and publishers which sold books critical of China
Police in Guangdong said in a letter to the Hong Kong force that Lui Bo, Lam Wingkei and Cheung Jiping would be bailed pending investigations. Continue reading
HK booksellers ‘to be released soon’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, Cheung Jiping, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lam Wingkei, Lee Bo, Lui Bo
Actor Sun Haiying’s Weibo shortly before it was shuttered.
December 14, 2014, Red Flag Manuscript published an article by Li Yanyan (李艳艳 – whom it identified as “with the Humanities division of Beijing Union University” – 北京联合大学) entitled “Some Tendencies That Must Be Addressed In Order to Safeguard Weibo’s Ideological Security” ( 维护微博意识形态安全必须纠正的几种倾向). Some excerpts: Continue reading
A Chronology of Actor Sun Haiying’s Ban From China’s Social Media已关闭评论
Posted in Culture, Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged Ban, censorship, Sun Haiying, Weibo
