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Prominent Tibetan Activist Tsering Woeser Claims Facebook Censorship

woeser-498x450By Matthew Robertson, Epoch Times | December 26, 2014Last Updated: December 27, 2014 6:40 am

Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser. (Courtesy of Tsering Woeser)

Tsering Woeser, a well-known Tibetan writer and activist, Continue reading →

Top Five China Books of 2014

LAURA CHANG 12.23.14

As the editor of ChinaFile’s Books section, I have the privilege of meeting and interviewing some amazing writers covering China today—academics, Continue reading →

Beijing Bastard: Into the Wilds of a Changing China by Val Wang

9781592408207reviewed by Melanie Ho
18 December 2014 — American Val Wang goes “into the wilds of a changing China” in Beijing Bastard, Continue reading →

The Global Lawyer: The Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics

Michael D. Goldhaber, The Litigation Daily

October 31, 2014

Gao-Zhisheng-GoldhaberGao Zhisheng in The American Lawyer, November 2005.

In November 2005, The American Lawyer ran a full-page photo of the Continue reading →

Studying in China during the Cultural Revolution

All this led to the emergence of a the Criticize Lin Criticize Confucius (Pi Lin Pi Kong) campaign, a campaign against a Communist general Continue reading →

Searching for Elder Sister Kou Yanding

kou_yan_dingPosted on December 10, 2014 by auravoicesforhumanrights

Kou Yanding was taken away by police in Beijing on October 10th for “picking quarrels and provoking disturbances.” Continue reading →

Christmas Card Signing event for Political Prisoners in China

Welcome to organize your own campaign to send out greeting cards to the prisoners using these address labels (30 addresses/page, Continue reading →

A letter to my husband Guo Yushan: II

BY OTHER NEWS SOURCES ON DECEMBER 15, 2014

Twenty days after the first letter to her husband, detained legal activist and scholar, Guo Yushan, Pan Haixia posted another exquisitely written follow-up letter to him online. Continue reading →