By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW August 27, 2015
In the children’s play “Five Fools,” Circus Master, right, learns a lesson about the power of kindness as she pressures Little Flower, left, to talk.
Wang Zhaohui
At the Drum Tower West Theater in Beijing last week, Circus Master was torturing Little Flower because she would not speak and was ruining the show.
She ordered Clown and Strong Man — other members of her troupe Continue reading
Setting a Stage for Kindness in Chinese Society已关闭评论
Posted in Culture
Tagged Five Fools, Wang Zhaohui
2015-08-26
Lawyer Zhang Kai (C) is shown with two assistants in Wenzhou, Aug. 25, 2015.
Photo courtesy of an RFA listener.
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang have detained a top Beijing rights lawyer who was advising local Christians in their bid to resist the demolition of crosses from local churches.
Zhang Kai had recently been based in the coastal city of Wenzhou, Continue reading
China Detains Lawyer in Zhejiang Amid Ongoing Cross Demolition Program已关闭评论
Posted in Human Rights Lawyer, Religious Freedom
Tagged Cross, Demolition, Human Rights Lawyer, Zhang Kai, Zhejiang
2015-08-27
Occupy Central leader Joshua Wong speaks to the media after a vote at the city’s legislature in Hong Kong, June 18, 2015.
AFP
The face of last year’s pro-democracy Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong, Joshua Wong, hit out on Thursday after being charged by police for his role in the mass protests for universal suffrage in the former British colony.
Wong, 18, who could face a jail term of up to five years, Continue reading
Hong Kong Charges Occupy Central Leaders With Public Order Offenses已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
By Ka Pa and Wei Ling
2015-08-26
Rights activist Gong Yujian (R) and former Tiananmen student leader Wu’er Kaixi (L) meet in Taiwan in an undated photo.
(Photo courtesy of Gong Yujian)
UPDATED at 12:42 P.M. EST on 26-08-2015
A veteran Chinese dissident who applied for political asylum in Taiwan during a tourist visit to the democratic island has had his application refused, he told RFA on Wednesday.
Gong Yujian, who served time in a labor camp in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Continue reading
Taiwan Turns Down Asylum Request by 1989 Chinese Democracy Activist已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Asylum, Gong Yujian, June 4th, Taiwan, Tiananmen
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW August 25, 2015
Liu Cixin won the 2015 Hugo Award for
Courtesy of Liu Cixin
The Chinese writer Liu Cixin has won the 2015 Hugo Award for best science-fiction novel. It is the first time the prestigious prize has gone to a Chinese writer and the first time that multiple finalists were originally written in languages other than English, the World Science Fiction Society announced.
The award is for “The Three-Body Problem,” Continue reading
Science-Fiction Prize Is Awarded to Chinese Writer for First Time已关闭评论
Posted in Culture
Tagged Liu Cixin, Prize, Science Fiction
2015-08-25
Activists in Hong Kong demonstrate for the release of rights lawyers detained on the Chinese mainland, Aug. 25, 2015.
RFA
Authorities in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin have confirmed they are investigating a top rights lawyer of “subversion,” amid growing calls for the release of dozens of people in a nationwide crackdown on the country’s embattled legal profession.
Bao Longjun, who was detained alongside his wife and fellow rights lawyer Wang Yu on July 9, Continue reading
China Probes Another Top Rights Lawyer For ‘Subversion’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Bao Longjun, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
By MURONG XUECUN August 21, 2015
In the fall of 2011, a friend and I got on to discussing Tibet. “Do you know,” he said, “that Tibetans are setting fire to themselves?”
I had spent from 2005 to 2008 in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, but I had never heard of acts of self-immolation. My friend filled me in on the ghastly details, Continue reading
MURONG XUECUN: Scaling China’s Great Firewall已关闭评论
Posted in Internet Freedom, Murong Xuecun
Tagged censorship, China, Great Firewall, Internet Freedom, MURONG XUECUN, Scaling
China Change, published: August 21, 2015
We believe that this is a deliberate effort to harm Guo Feixiong and kill him slowly.
(Subtitles provided by @WLYeung and @awfan )
Chinese democracy activist Guo Feixiong (郭飞雄, also known by his original name, Yang Maodong 杨茂东) has now been held in Guangzhou’s Tianhe Detention Center for 743 days since his detention on August 8, 2013, Continue reading
Guozhen Xiao：Activist Guo Feixiong Held 743 Days Without Yard Time已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom, Writers in Prison
Tagged Guo Feixiong
