
Author Yu Jie. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Author Yu Jie. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Tienchi Martin-Liao: Yu Jie and the Leviathan State已关闭评论
Posted in News & Events, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Tagged Tienchi Martin-Liao, Yu Jie
Harry Wu on Human Rights Day. Image via Wikimedia Commons
Tienchi Martin-Liao : Harry Wu: An Amazing Survivor已关闭评论
Posted in Culture, Headlines, History, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Tagged Forced Labor, Harry Wu, Laogai, Tienchi Martin-Liao
From left to right: Chang Ping, Tienchi Martin-Liao, writer Ye Fu, and a friend, in Amsterdam in 2012. Image courtesy of the author.
Tienchi Martin-Liao: Horsetrading With Abduction已关闭评论
Posted in Internet Freedom, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Tagged Chang Ping, open letter, sibling-abduction, Tioenchi Martin-Liao, Xi Jinping
Chinese writer and Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Tienchi Martin-Liao: “Global Citizen” or “Dissident Writer”?: An Impolite Question to Gao Xingjian已关闭评论
Posted in Culture, Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Tagged Dissident Writer, Gao Xingjian, global citizen, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Observers of the recent elections in Taiwan. Image provided by the author.
It was an amazing experience to be an observer to the Taiwan election. Together with a small group of writers and politicians from Europe and Japan, we had the chance to witness the peaceful and passionate election in Taiwan in mid-January. The landslide victory of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was already prognosticated by several poll institutes weeks ago. Tsai Ing-wen became the first female president, meeting all expectations, yet the results in the parliament election were still quite astonishing. The ruling party Kuomintang (KMT) has lost almost 50 percent from its original 64 seats down to 35 seats, giving the DPP to get a comfortable 68 of 113 majority. More stunning is the newly founded (as of January 25, 2015) so called third forces. Some of the young leaders of the New Power Party are coming from the Sunflower Movement. They have won 5 seats and became the third political force in parliament. Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao: “I am very, very sorry… I am proud to be Chinese.”已关闭评论
Posted in Taiwan, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Tagged DPP, election, KMT, New Power Party, president, Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen
Guan Hu’s newest movie resonates with the Cultural Revolution generation, but the film has one fatal flaw. Continue reading
A Look at “Mr. Six”已关闭评论
Posted in Culture, Headlines, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Tagged Cultural Revolution, Guan Hu, movie, Mr. Six, Pu Zhiqiang
At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, intellectuals committed suicide in defiance of Mao Zedong’s policies, which would take the lives of millions more. Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao: The Communist Party of China’s “Mother Beats Child” Syndrome已关闭评论
Posted in History, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Tagged Cultural Revolution, intellectuals, Mao Zedong, Stockholm syndrome, Tienchi Martin-Liao
A controversial author and publisher has been abducted by Chinese authorities in an act of state-sponsored terrorism intended to intimidate dissenting voices. Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao: China’s “State Terrorism” Against Dissent已关闭评论
Posted in Culture, Hong Kong Democracy, Publications, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Tagged Gui Minghai, Hong Kong, Publisher, state-terrorism, Thailand, Tienchi Martin-Liao