From Wang Shiwei to Liu Xiaobo: Prisoners of Literary Inquisition under Communist Rule in China
Wang Shiwei (Wang Shih-wei, born Wang Siwei, April 5, 1906 – July 1, 1947), a writer, translator and commentator, was executed in secret as a “counterrevolutionary Trotskyite spy”on the 26th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.
No. 14 Yu Zhang: Case No. 1 (1947): Wang Shiwei, Dismembered on CPC Anniversary已关闭评论
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In Chinese dictionaries published since the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, the definition of Literary Inquisition is restricted to “the rulers of olden times”; at the very least, it is a relic of the past, occurring no more recently than a century ago, mainly during the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the Mandarin Dictionary published by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan), Literary Inquisition is defined as occurring in the “era of absolute monarchy”, precluding its existence in the Republic era. A revised edition has amended the definition to read, “During the autocratic era, criminal cases arising from the written word”. This last definition is the common usage adopted by contemporary Chinese literature, and also for this book.
No. 14 Yu ZHANG: Sixty-four Years of Literary Inquisition Surpasses Two Millennia已关闭评论
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From Wang Shiwei to Liu Xiaobo: Prisoners of Literary Inquisition under Communist Rule in China
This shocking book of life and death depicts a floating world of personal tragedy, conscience gone adrift, the loss of reason, a people’s shame and a nation’s fall. Continue reading
No. 14 TIENCHI MARTIN-LIAO: Shocking Stories of Life and Death已关闭评论
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Ian Johnson
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Human Rights lawyer Teng Biao
Teng Biao is one of China’s best-known civil-rights lawyers, and a prominent member of the weiquan, or “rights defenders,” movement, a loosely knit coalition of Chinese lawyers and activists who tackle cases related to the environment, religious freedom, and freedom of speech and the press. Continue reading
China’s Unstoppable Lawyers: An Interview With Teng Biao已关闭评论
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The Uighur academic, and my friend, has devoted himself to fostering relations between the Uighur and Han people. For this, China has locked him up
theguardian.com, Wednesday 24 September 2014 06.48 EDT
Ilham Tohti Continue reading
Teng Biao:Ilham Tohti should get the Nobel peace prize, not life in prison已关闭评论
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SEPT. 21, 2014
BEIJING — Chinese dissidents are constantly subject to all sorts of harassment. The artist Ai Weiwei can’t leave the country to attend exhibitions of his own work. Continue reading
MURONG XUECUN:Beijing’s Rising Smear Power已关闭评论
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September 26, 2012
A loss and a win for an artist in isolation.
One of Liu Xia’s Doll Photographs
From The Silent Strength of Liu Xia. Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao:Liu Xia and Her Dolls已关闭评论
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October 10, 2012
Crime and Punishment, Without the Crime
Feng Zhenghu on day 80 at Nitira Airport, Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao:Feng Zhenghu: Imprisoned at Home for Over 200 Days已关闭评论
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