July 23, 2014
Thoughts on the artist’s one-man exhibition in Berlin.
Ai Weiwei He Xie
Ai Weiwei’s piece ‘He Xie’ at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. Photo provided by Tienchi Martin-Liao.
The largest one-man exhibition of Ai Weiwei’s artwork ended this week in Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau. Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao: Ai Weiwei’s Art and the Chinese Tragi-Comedy已关闭评论
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September 3, 2013
An award-winning Chinese writer provokes and exposes the CCP, despite official bans and censorship.
Yan Lianke
Chinese author Yan Lianke. Photo: friends.sfpl via Flickr.
This year the Chinese writer Yan Lianke has been longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao: Yan Lianke: A Master of Sarcasm已关闭评论
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September 11, 2013
China’s president calls for a return to “Marxism,” but what does that mean exactly?
Statue of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in Shanghai, China. Photo via wikimedia, Creative Commons.
Trier is a beautiful, Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao: Xi Jinping Wants Journalists to Learn from Marx已关闭评论
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by Tienchi Martin-Liao / September 25, 2013
Classic charges, plus new offenses, facilitate a wave of arrests designed to smother free speech in China.
Charles Xue Confession
Chinese American businessman and blogger Charles Xue confesses to soliciting prostitutes on State TV. Photo: TheGuardian via YouTube.
“Inciting subversion of state power” is the most frequently used Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao：A Grim Harbinger for the Democratic Movement已关闭评论
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by Tienchi Martin-Liao / October 23, 2013
On the contrasting lives of Chinese dissidents in prison.
Human rights activist and lawyer Teng Biao. Photo: Courtesy of Tienchi Marin-Liao. Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao：Dictatorship is a Decapitator, Whether it Tortures You or Treats You Well已关闭评论
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by Tienchi Martin-Liao / June 25, 2014
Between Germany and Beijing: Tiananmen Square’s increasingly complex politics.
Zhu Xinxin white flower crop
Zhu Xinxin poses outside of Tiananmen Square shortly before the white flower pinned to his shirt was confiscated by police. Photo: Courtesy of Tienchi Martin-Liao via Boxun.com.
The vigil held in Hong Kong on June 4 for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao:Remembrance is Not Only a Right; It’s a Duty已关闭评论
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by Tienchi Martin-Liao / November 6, 2013
Ye Fu and Friends
Head of the Rice Delivery Party, Ye Fu, and friends. Photo courtesy of Tienchi Martin-Liao.
It’s a common name, Butcher’s Shop, and it has become a popular page on taobao.com, Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao：Rice-Delivery-Party-A philanthropic e-commerce project provides financial aid to the families of Chinese political prisoners已关闭评论
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by Tienchi Martin-Liao / November 20, 2013
Chen Yongzhou
Express reporter Chen Yongzhu. Photo courtesy of Tienchi Martin-Liao via news.163.com.
Over the last 18 months Chen Yongzhou, Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao：A Mud Battle Fought in A Quagmire-Censorship and corruption in Chinese journalism已关闭评论
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