Sichuan rights activists Yang Xiuqiong (L) and Huang Qi (R) in photo taken before their detention, Feb. 18, 2016. Photo courtesy of activist Li Zhaoxiu.
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have formally arrested the founder of a rights website on state secrets charges while detaining a writer who criticized widespread air pollution on suspicion of subversion. Continue reading
Activist, Writer Held on Spying, Subversion Charges in China’s Sichuan已关闭评论
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Wu Gan stages protest outside Jiangxi High Court, May 19, 2015. Photo courtesy of Boxun
Detained rights activist Wu Gan, known by his online nickname “The Butcher,” has suffered torture while being held under investigation in a police detention center in the northern port city of Tianjin, his lawyers have complained after visiting him last week. Continue reading
Chinese Rights Activist ‘Tortured’ in Police Detention: Lawyers已关闭评论
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China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television holds political study meeting, Nov. 21, 2016. Public Domain.
China’s powerful media regulator has banned social media platforms like WeChat, and the Twitter-like Weibo services run by Sina and Tencent, from disseminating user-generated audio and video, in a move that appears to be aimed at stifling citizen reporting in a country where all news is controlled by the ruling Chinese Communist Party. Continue reading
China Bans User-Made, ‘Unlicensed’ Video, Audio From Social Media已关闭评论
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The dynamics between the central administration in imperial Chinese dynasties and local levels of administration since the first unification under the short lived Qin in 220 BCE and the ways in which the shadow of these persist to this day is an enormous subject. It is curious, as Jae Ho Chung points out in the preamble to this short but intense and highly rewarding monograph, why so little attention has been paid to this subject. Continue reading
Kerry Brown: Centrifugal Empire: Central Local Relations in China by Jae Ho Chung已关闭评论
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Nearly 40 journalists are currently behind bars amid an ongoing crackdown by the ruling Chinese Communist Party on the media this year, according to a new report from a U.S.-based press freedom group. Continue reading
China Holds 38 Journalists Behind Bars in 2016: Press Freedom Group已关闭评论
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Shenaz Patel is a Mauritian writer and a 2016 resident of the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa.
As islanders, we know how attentive we have to be to signs when a cyclone approaches.
Will I dare say it aloud? But then, everything about “politically correct” seems thrown to the dogs these days. And perhaps the core of the problem is we’ve had an overdose of political correctness, which has drugged the capacity to see, and hear, and feel. Continue reading
Writers on the 2016 US Election: Shenaz Patel已关闭评论
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On the occasion of the International Day for Human Rights, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), in cooperation with the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), Ilham Tohti Initiative (ITI) and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen convened a conference in the Bayrischer Landtag in Munich on 12 December 2016. Entitled “Ilham Tohti and the Situation of the Human Rights of the Uyghur”, the conference brought together a variety of researchers, experts and representatives of diaspora movements to discuss the pressing issue of Uyghur intellectual Ilham Tohti’s unjust imprisonment, how this represented a wider deprivation of fundamental human rights for the Uyghur, and what concrete steps must be taken to achieve peaceful coexistence between Han Chinese and Uyghurs.
Conference on Ilham Tohti and Human Rights for the Uyghur in Munich已关闭评论
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This provocative collection from “China’s Troublemaker” falls short on wit and excels at arrogance.
In the translators’ introduction to Han Han’s collection of essays, The Problem with Me, we come to know this young, influential writer is speaking for “a new generation of troublemakers and dissidents, young people [in China] unhappy with the status quo.” And “central to enjoying Han Han’s writing is his sense of humor.” Continue reading
Kristina Moriconi: The Problem with Me: And Other Essays about Making Trouble in China Today已关闭评论
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