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Uncovering Asia: The First Asian Investigative Journalism Conference, Nov. 22-24, 2014

By: GIJN STAFF | July 31, 2014

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AsiaMark your calendars! Uncovering Asia: Continue reading

BREAKING NEWS: 2014 SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED!

New Voices Award

BREAKING NEWS: 2014 SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED!

‘The Fabulous Five’ by Kasim Bazil (Central Asian PEN)

‘The Frogs’ Chorus’ by Marina Babanskaya (St Petersburg PEN Chapter)

‘Vankila, and other poems’ by Amalia Cernat (Romanian PEN) Continue reading

Chang Ping:Without the Right to Remember There Can Be No Freedom to Forget

published: August 23, 2014

(This is Chang Ping’s rebuttal to Frank Sieren’s Let Fairness Replace Anger [link in German], the second round of the Sieren vs. Chang Ping debate in June this year in Deutsche Welle about the June 4th massacre in 1989 Continue reading

Writing China: Jack Livings, ‘The Dog’

5:32 pm HKT Aug 19, 2014 CULTURE
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Jack Livings’ new book, ‘The Dog’. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Continue reading

Reverse-engineering censorship in China: Randomized experimentation and participant observation

Science 22 August 2014: 

Vol. 345 no. 6199
DOI: 10.1126/science.1251722
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Gary King1,*, Jennifer Pan1, Margaret E. Roberts2
+ Author Affiliations

1Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Continue reading

Beyond the Dalai Lama: An Interview with Woeser and Wang Lixiong

Ian Johnson

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China NPC meeting could be writing on the wall for democracy in Hong Kong

By Cormac McCartan Aug 21, 2014 1:44PM UTC

Hong Kong China Tension

People fill in a street during a march at an annual pro-democracy protest in downtown Hong Kong on July 1. Pic: AP. Continue reading

Chinese Society:Change, Conflict and Resistance, 3rd Edition

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Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry, Mark Selden

Routledge – 2010 – 344 pages Continue reading