(Ng Han Guan/ Associated Press ) – In this photo taken Wednesday, April 10, 2013, Chinese dissident Hu Jia talks on his phone during a meeting at a restaurant in Beijing, China. In prosecuting the country’s political and social activists, an image-conscious Beijing is shifting its tactics. Continue reading
China hits activists with common-crime charges已关闭评论
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Tagged Hu Jia, Human Rights Activists
As of May 27, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user” function).
Tiananmen: More keywords blocked in relation to the approaching anniversary of June 4th. Continue reading
Sensitive Words: May Thirty-fifth and More已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, Internet Freedom, June 4th, Tiananmen
reviewed by John Butler
26 May 2014 — “Shanghai. A heaven built upon a hell!” These simple and striking words from Continue reading
05.22.14
By Gary Shteyngart
The headlong rush of Beijing’s booming scene, as seen by T+L—old-school restaurants, futuristic architecture, Internet entrepreneurs, and over-the-top nightclubs.
In Beijing, the past trembles Continue reading
[image credit: OUP // Leila Navidi]
With the 25th anniversary of the violent suppression of student protests on June 4, 1989 coming upon us next week, we spoke to Louisa Lim, a journalist for NPR who has written a book about the events of Continue reading
“If I don’t write this book, who will?”: Interview with Louisa Lim, author of The People’s Republic of Amnesia已关闭评论
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Tagged June 4th, Louisa Lim, Tiananmen, Tiananmen Revisited
May 26, 2014
(PHOTO TAKEN FROM TWITTER @PRCHOVANEC. CLICK TO ENLARGE)
Lately not a day has passed without me stopping in the middle of something, gripped by disbelief: It’s been 25 years since the Tian’anmen democracy movement in 1989, and today, in 2014, Continue reading
China Change Invites Your Comments:What does it mean for the world, for the US, and for us as individuals to have an authoritarian China, with the world’s biggest economy soon and 1/5 of the world population, that rejects universal values?已关闭评论
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2014-05-26
Tibetan singer Gebe in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of an RFA listener.
A Tibetan singer who rendered a song calling for the protection of the Tibetan language Continue reading
Tibetan Singer Held After Belting Out Song Calling for Language Protection已关闭评论
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Tagged Gebe, Singer, Tibetan, Tibetan language
By AUSTIN RAMZY MAY 26, 2014 2:42 AM
The United States secretary of state, John Kerry, at a news conference in Beijing in February.
Pool photo by Evan Vucci
A Chinese blogger says he was fired from his job at one of China’s Continue reading
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Tagged Blogger, censorship, Internet Freedom, Kerry, United States secretary of state, Zhang Jialong
