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210. SUN FENG (Released)

Posted on 10/27/2019 | 210. SUN FENG (Released)已关闭评论

Sun FengPen name               The Flash, Fearless

Sex                              Male

Birth date               1966-08-18

Birth place             Zibo City,  Shandong Province

Resident place       Zhangdian District, Zibo City,  Shandong Province

Education                 Middle school Continue reading →

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216. WANG MO

Posted on 10/15/2019 | 216. WANG MO已关闭评论

王默在看守所Penname                     Kitchen Knife Wang Mo

Sex                                  Male

Birth date                   1972-12-15

Birth place                  Huai-an City, Jiangsu Province

Resident place          Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province Continue reading →

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THE DEMOCRACY OF THE IMAGINATION MANIFESTO

Posted on 10/10/2019 | THE DEMOCRACY OF THE IMAGINATION MANIFESTO已关闭评论

PEN International was founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere, emphasize the role of literature in developing understanding, stand for freedom of expression and act as a powerful voice on behalf of writers harassed, silenced, imprisoned and sometimes killed for their views. Continue reading →

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226. WANG YUPING

Posted on 09/11/2019 | 226. WANG YUPING已关闭评论

wangyupingPen name                Wang Yiming, People’s Thinker
Sex                               Male

Birth date                1964-09-11

Birth place              Rongcheng Town, Jianli County, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province

Resident place       Jingzhou City, Hubei Province; Bangkok, Thailand (before being kidnapped)

Education                 Technical secondary school Continue reading →

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228: LIU FEIYUE

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liu-feiyueSex                              Male

Birth date              1970-02-05

Birth place             Sui County, Hubei Province

Resident place       Suizhou City, Hubei Province

Education                Colleage

Profession                 Internet writer and former teacher, founder and chief editor of Minsheng Guancha (Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch) website (ICPC member) Continue reading →

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Liu Xia： Two Poems under House Arrest

Posted on 07/13/2019 | Liu Xia： Two Poems under House Arrest已关闭评论

Drinking

Before going to drink with my old brother
I will unplug my telephone Continue reading →

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Romi Jain: Remembering Tiananmen Square

Posted on 06/20/2019 | Romi Jain: Remembering Tiananmen Square已关闭评论
How stunning is human history:
Events sometimes
Take place in the lap of locations
They contradict.
It happened on June 4, 1989.
In the precincts of Tiananmen Square,
Unarmed protestors met with massacre:
The “gate of heavenly peace” became an orb of slain urges to Freedom;
Chang’an Avenue-“eternal peace street”-
Stupefied stood.
A square shed ordinariness of the unison of four sides
When the Goddess of Democracy incarnated in a statue;
A multitude of students broke out of dormancy
To challenge state-ordained ideology,
Reflecting the spirit of Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy,
Questioning the ‘culture of silence’
Remembering the dear Hu Yaobang,
They shouted the slogan of their cherished desire:
Long live democracy!
The movement grew sturdier
When a million people marched through streets
Clamoring for liberty, for freedom of speech,
For elimination of corruption;
The hunger for democracy outshone
The hunger of stomach
When a protester passed by
With a poster stuck on his back:
“I need food,
But I would rather die for democracy”
The peacefulness of protests was thorny
To the regime that controlled
The wind of the State, such that
No bud was allowed to grow
Without checking the pollens.
Tyrannical onslaughts ensued
With the declaration of martial law;
Like hungry tigers, tanks and guns were let loose.
Civilians pleaded with the soldiers:
“Don’t do that…would you kill your own people?”
Unheeding, the troops brought down the barricades
Put up in defense of unarmed protesters.
Like ferocious wheels of a crushing crane, the tanks
Kept proceeding, trampling on defenseless demonstrators.
AK 47 rifles were triggered.
Heaps of bodies
Bathing in their own blood lay in streets,
In Tiananmen Square, with dead dreams.
Their desire for liberation from authoritarianism
Had been suppressed
With liberation from lives.
Tiananmen Square is quiet today.
The Tank Man who caught the world attention
By halting the powerful tanks for brief moments
Through his valiant, peaceful defiance,
Lies somewhere—alive or dead—in the debris
Of history
That the authorities desperately keep burying
Until it is forgotten, once for all.
The souls of the perished youths roam around
Tiananmen Square,
Asking visitors: “do you remember us?”
Not getting a response, they aver:
“When democracy arrives, we shall rise;
You’ll recognize!

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Gregory Orr: NOTHING AND THE INCIDENT IN THE STREETS

Posted on 06/19/2019 | Gregory Orr: NOTHING AND THE INCIDENT IN THE STREETS已关闭评论
South Carolina State College
Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1968
Tlatelolco Square, Mexico City, 1968
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, 1989
Nothing forced those kids
to go out there.
Nothing made them insist on
their foolish demands.
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