From Wang Shiwei to Liu Xiaobo: Prisoners of Literary Inquisition under Communist Rule in China
Hu Feng (born Zhang Mingzhen, November 2, 1902 – June 8, 1985), a prominent art and literary critic, commentator, editor, translator and poet, was imprisoned in 1955 after the authorities named him leader of a“Hu Feng Counterrevolutionary Clique” on the basis of a “300,000-word Report”. He spent 24 years in prison and six more years under the cloud of injustice until his death.
No. 14 Yu ZHANG: Case No. 9 (1955): Hu Feng, Imprisoned for a Petition已关闭评论
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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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Human rights fears grow as Gao Yu, 70, faces life sentence, while jailed Uighur scholar’s appeal is turned down
Chinese journalist Gao Yu in 2012. State media have said she is accused of leaking an internal Communist party document to foreigners. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP
Tania Branigan in Beijing
Friday 21 November 2014 09.30 EST
China has tried a veteran journalist for revealing state secrets and Continue reading
Chinese journalist charged with handing over state secrets已关闭评论
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Activist attorney Pu Zhiqiang is accused of a total of four offences as investigators hand his case to prosecutors in next step towards trial
PUBLISHED : Friday, 21 November, 2014, 3:08am UPDATED : Friday, 21 November, 2014, 9:34am
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Beijing police had handed over the case of human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang to Continue reading
Rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang faces more charges as police hand case to prosecutors已关闭评论
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Sex Male
Birth date 1983
Birth place Guinan County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province
Resident place Gomang Temple, Aba County, Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province Continue reading
Reporter Gao faces charges of revealing state secrets while Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti’s life sentence appeal rejected.
Last updated: 21 Nov 2014 08:55
Chinese authorities have put on trial an outspoken journalist accused of revealing state secrets and rejected an appeal by Continue reading
Chinese activist and journalist go on trial已关闭评论
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