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Beijing Formally Charges Writer Who Published Memoirs of Victims of Mao Era

By CHRIS BUCKLEY OCT. 23, 2014

HONG KONG — The police in Beijing have formally charged an 81-year-old writer, Tie Liu, for privately publishing the testimony of aged or dead victims of Mao Zedong’s wrath Continue reading

Chen Ziming – Veteran Dissident ‘Who Worried About China And Its People’

A commentary by Bao Tong

2014-10-24

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Wen Yongfen, the mother of jailed dissident Chen Ziming, holds a photo of her cancer-stricken son during a discrete protest in a Beijing park Oct 22, 1995.
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Chen Ziming was arrested in late 1989 for his involvement in the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests Continue reading

Zhejiang Activist Chen Shuqing Formally Arrested

October 22, 2014

HRIC has learned that, Chen Shuqing (陈树庆), a core member of the China Democracy Party’s Zhejiang Committee, has been formally arrested. The official charge cannot be confirmed at this Continue reading

Tiananmen Protest ‘Black Hand’ Chen Ziming Dies in Beijing

7:30 pm HKT Oct 22, 2014

 

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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

One of the two activists identified as the Continue reading

Sensing subversion, China throws the book at kids’ libraries

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

Understanding the China Dream

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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

China blocks BBC website as Hong Kong tensions rise

theguardian.com, Thursday 16 October 2014 04.37 EDT

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

China has blocked the BBC website as protests in Hong Kong continue. Photograph: Alexander Koerner/Getty Images Continue reading

How I Dealt With China’s Book Censors-ChinaFile One Western author shares his struggle to keep a text true to history.

BY JOSEPH W. ESHERICK  OCTOBER 15, 2014

It was a hot afternoon in June in the East China city of Jinan. I was returning to my hotel after an afternoon coffee, thinking of the conference I had come to attend and trying to escape the heat on the shady side of the street. My cell phone rang, Continue reading