Category Archives: Members’works

Tienchi Martin-Liao:“Reeducation Through Labor” has Been Swept into the Dustbin of History

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by Tienchi Martin-Liao / December 4, 2013

The CCP has abolished its system of forced prison labor, but some believe more legal reforms are necessary.

Model of a Laogai solitary confinement cell, Continue reading →

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Teng Biao：Beyond Stability Maintenance – From Surveillance to Elimination

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By Teng Biao, published: June 22, 2014

 

June 4th has passed, but the arrests continue, and every day brings bad news from China. While scholar Xu Youyu, artist Chen Guang and others have been released “on probation,” Continue reading →

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Tienchi Martin-Liao：“In the beginning was the Word”

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by Tienchi Martin-Liao / December 18, 2013
On the fifth year of Liu Xiaobo’s imprisonment.


Liu Xia, wife of Liu Xiaobo. Image: Lunar New Year via Flickr.

Exactly five years ago, on December 6, 2008, Continue reading →

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“If I’m Not Speaking That Means I’m Dead”: An Interview with Liao Yiwu

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by Tienchi Martin-Liao / January 7, 2014

Liao Yiwu (right) with Tienchi Martin-Liao in front of House Poem. Photo: TJ Murphy
On a warm May day in Pittsburgh in 2013, Liao Yiwu sat down with his long-time friend and colleague Tienchi Martin-Liao. Continue reading →

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Tienchi Martin-Liao：Two Ceremonial Acts, One Bad Omen

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by Tienchi Martin-Liao / January 15, 2014 /
As history looms large, tensions flare up between China and Japan.


Xi Jinping and Sinzo Abe

Xi Jinping (L), President of the People’s Republic of China; and Sinzo Abe (R), Prime Minister of Japan. Photos:

There is a famous photograph from 1970 that depicts West German Chancellor Willy Brand kneeling Continue reading →

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MURONG XUECUN: China’s Clampdown on ‘Evil Cults’

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JUNE 17, 2014

By MURONG XUECUN

On June 1, my friend Pastor Wang Yi of the Early Rain Reformed Church in Chengdu was arrested while distributing anti-forced-abortion leaflets. The stated grounds for detaining him were “illegal advertising.” Continue reading →

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Tienchi Martin-Liao: A Spectre is Haunting China—the Spectre of June 4

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by Tienchi Martin-Liao / June 11, 2014

How the Chinese government’s hidden past is torturing its present.

In Memory of Tiananmen Square Protest
The Hong Kong Federation of Social Work students carry a tombstone with the names of June 4th victims in memory of the Tiananmen Square protests. Photo: Bandari Lei via Flickr. Continue reading →

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Tienchi Martin-Liao：“Creating a Disturbance in a Public Place, Causing Serious Disorder”

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by Tienchi Martin-Liao / May 28, 2014

A new period of persecution in China.


Tiananmen May 1989

Student protest in Tiananmen Square, May 1989 Photo: Robert Croma via Flickr Continue reading →

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