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Detained Chinese Feminist Wins New Human Rights Honor

Posted on 03/18/2017 by | Detained Chinese Feminist Wins New Human Rights Honor已关闭评论

Detained activist Su Changlan, who has been in pre-trial detention for more than two years, on Tuesday received a prestigious human rights award from a coalition of Chinese human rights groups. Continue reading →

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Nobel laureate, playwright, and poet Derek Walcott dies today aged 87

Posted on 03/17/2017 by | Nobel laureate, playwright, and poet Derek Walcott dies today aged 87已关闭评论

17 March 2017

It is with great sadness that PEN International received the news of Nobel laureate, playwright, & poet Derek Walcott’s death earlier today. Statements from PEN President Jennifer Clement and Executive Director Carles Torner are below. Continue reading →

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Zhou Xin：Is China an Empire? – Han Shih Toh’s take on China’s growing presence on the world stage

Posted on 03/16/2017 by | Zhou Xin：Is China an Empire? – Han Shih Toh’s take on China’s growing presence on the world stage已关闭评论

It’s an intriguing proposition, but Toh’s book lacks a systematic approach and struggles to provide a convincing answer

Is China an Empire?

by Han Shih Toh

World Scientific

3 stars

The rise of China as an economic powerhouse, and increasingly a political and military one, is one of the most important global developments in the past three decades. The way that China, a vast country ruled by a communist party, grows and deals with other countries is set to affect everyone on this planet. Continue reading →

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CHINA: ORDER TO RESTRICT CHILDREN’S BOOKS A TROUBLING STEP TOWARD IDEOLOGICAL CONFORMITY

Posted on 03/15/2017 by | CHINA: ORDER TO RESTRICT CHILDREN’S BOOKS A TROUBLING STEP TOWARD IDEOLOGICAL CONFORMITY已关闭评论

NEW YORK – The Chinese government’s reported introduction of new measures to restrict children’s access to books written by foreign authors is the next step in China’s growing restrictions on free thought and free expression, cc stated today. Continue reading →

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HRC34 | Urge China to amend laws, investigate torture and release detained defenders

Posted on 03/14/2017 by | HRC34 | Urge China to amend laws, investigate torture and release detained defenders已关闭评论

In Geneva, it does not go entirely unnoticed that China continues to engage in a sustained crackdown which aims to gag, discredit, or intimidate into silence virtually any dissenting voices in the country. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in his annual global update to the UN’s top human rights body, raised a number of serious concerns in Asian countries. On China specifically, he deplored ‘the intimidation and detention of lawyers and activists who seek the good of their community and nation’ and added: ‘I am also disturbed by cases of restrictions on cultural and religious rights, particularly in Xinjiang and Tibet’. Continue reading →

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PEN-supported translations – a match for English language titles

Posted on 03/13/2017 by | PEN-supported translations – a match for English language titles已关闭评论

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English PEN has published an evaluation of its first grant-giving programme, PEN Promotes, which has supported literary translation since 2005 Continue reading →

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China’s Evolving Space Capabilities

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China’s Evolving Space Capabilities: Implications for U.S. Interests. By Mark A. Stokes and Dean Cheng. Washington, DC: Project 2049 Institute, April 26, 2012. 85 pages. Available on-line at https://project2049.net/documents/uscc_china-space-program-report_april-2012.pdf. Continue reading →

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PEN International interview series marks International Women’s Day 2017

Posted on 03/08/2017 by | PEN International interview series marks International Women’s Day 2017已关闭评论

8 March 2017

It is the extraordinary legacy of women writers and journalists that inspire us at PEN to continue fighting the many barriers women writers still face. Whether that is censorship in the form of physical or emotional violence, a society that stereotypes and marginalizes them, or a publishing industry that still sees women earning less, publishing less, and being reviewed less than their male peers. This is a struggle that affects us all because everyone needs the stories, voices, and craft women writers have always offered – despite a huge number of challenges – in such abundance. The stories, rhythms, and power of women writers have created new worlds, both real and fictional, in which readers can lose and find themselves, glean inspiration to live more visibly and inhabit women’s knowledge. Continue reading →

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