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Hu Ping: How the Tiananmen Massacre Changed China, and the World

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Revealed for the first time this year, this photo is from a personal collection. https://twitter.com/ZhouFengSuo/status/602473738148257794

Translated by Matthew Robertson, June 2, 2015

“What we need to grasp is that the existence of a political system that is so perverse in its reason, and so unfair and unjust to its subjects, is an open taunt to the conscience and sense of justice of humanity. The international rise of that system, too, is perforce a threat to freedom and world peace.”  

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MURONG XUECUN: Corrupting the Chinese Language

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May 28, 2015

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On a recent walk along a street in the southern Chinese city of Sanya, I heard a shop pumping out a rock version of the famous Communist Party anthem “Socialism Is Good.” Continue reading

YANG Jianli: To all Children of Prisoners of Conscience

Speech by YANG Jianli

at “Children of Prisoners of Conscience”—Organization Launch
The 10th InterEthnic/InterFaith Leadership Conference

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FEAR – to poet WANG Zang

by Yifeng(逸风)

the selfie of Wang Zang(王藏)

Your shaved head
Is as the same as mine
Towering in the darkness behind the rain curtain
We know that light above your umbrella
Was the broken rain
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No. 19 Liu Xiaobo: Listening to  Bald Lao Playing Flute

– To Lao Liao

It was never a suitable place for playing flute
But you miraculously
Turned your flesh into the sound of flute
The little restaurant was very simple
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No. 13 Yu ZHANG: Case No. 59 (2005): Yasin, A Wild Pigeon’s Separatism

 From Wang Shiwei to Liu Xiaobo: Prisoners of Literary Inquisition under Communist Rule in China

YasinNurmuhemmet Yasin (March 6, 1974 – ), a Uyghur poet and writer, was sentenced in 2005 to ten year’s imprisonment on the change of inciting separatism for publishing his short story “Wild Pigeon”.

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Ma Lan:They knocked my teeth out.

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Two Poems by Ma Lan translated from Chinese by Charles A. Laughlin.

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Writing a Love Poem for a Tooth

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Teng Biao: What will this crackdown on activists do to China’s nascent civil society?

Even the renowned rights lawyer Pu Zhiquiang has been caught up in the arrests since 2012. But the democratic push won’t stop

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Pu Zhiqiang speaking to reporters at the Chongqing higher people’s court in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality, 28 December 2012. Photograph: Yongping Xu/EPA Continue reading