In Mexico we feel hurt and shocked to see that so many people in the United States, including Latinos and women, voted for Donald Trump. I am also deeply concerned to see, throughout the world, a growing tendency in politics for propaganda to replace truth.
-Jennifer Clement, President of PEN Internationa Continue reading
Writers on the 2016 US Election: Jennifer Clement已关闭评论
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Trade visitors in Hall 6 at Frankfurt Book Fair Friday (October 21) near the Publishing Perspectives office. Image: Frankfurter Buchmesse, Mark Jacquemin
As Frankfurt Book Fair’s press officers report a slight increase in trade-visitor attendance this year, the German trade gives Carolin Emcke its 2016 peace prize. Continue reading
Porter Anderson: Frankfurt Book Fair Notes: Attendance Figures, Emcke’s Peace Prize已关闭评论
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Yan Lianke. Credit Philippe Picquier
THE EXPLOSION CHRONICLES
By Yan Lianke
Translated by Carlos Rojas
457 pp. Grove Press. $26.
JIAYANG FAN: Yan Lianke’s Novel Assesses the Moral Cost of China’s Growth已关闭评论
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Chinese blogger Lu Yuyu (R) and his girlfriend, Li Tingyu, in undated photo. Not the News.
Chinese rights activists and journalists have welcomed a Press Freedom award handed to two detained bloggers and the Sichuan-based Tianwang rights website, amid fears that two of the recipients may be being mistreated in detention. Continue reading
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Xi Jinping gives a speech at the Internet conference in Wuzhen, China, Dec. 16, 2015. AFP
China’s draconian new cybersecurity law, passed by the country’s rubber-stamp parliament this week, has sparked concerns that it will be used to further stifle individual freedoms after a crackdown on dissent that has lasted since President Xi Jinping took power. Continue reading
China’s Cybersecurity Law Could be Used to Target Peaceful Activists已关闭评论
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Would-be independent candidates in forthcoming elections to district-level legislative bodies around China have expressed concern over the safety of constitutional scholar and former People’s Congress deputy Yao Lifa, who has been incommunicado since last week. Continue reading
Fears Grow For Chinese Election Hopeful, Missing, Believed Detained已关闭评论
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A woman uses her smartphone near a booth promoting cloud services during the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing, China.
BEIJING — China’s legislature approved a cybersecurity law on Monday that human rights activists warn will tighten political controls and foreign companies say might hamper access to Chinese technology markets. Continue reading
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The 2016 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) – TV5 Monde Press Freedom Prize will be awarded to Syrian reporter Hadi Abdullah, the Chinese news website 64Tianwang, and Chinese citizen journalists Lu Yuyu and Li Tingyu at a ceremony in Strasbourg tomorrow evening (8 November). Continue reading
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