By CHRIS BUCKLEY OCT. 23, 2014
HONG KONG — The police in Beijing have formally charged an 81-year-old writer, Tie Liu, for privately publishing the testimony of aged or dead victims of Mao Zedong’s wrath Continue reading
By CHRIS BUCKLEY OCT. 23, 2014
HONG KONG — The police in Beijing have formally charged an 81-year-old writer, Tie Liu, for privately publishing the testimony of aged or dead victims of Mao Zedong’s wrath Continue reading
Beijing Formally Charges Writer Who Published Memoirs of Victims of Mao Era已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Tie Liu
A commentary by Bao Tong
2014-10-24
Wen Yongfen, the mother of jailed dissident Chen Ziming, holds a photo of her cancer-stricken son during a discrete protest in a Beijing park Oct 22, 1995.
AFP
Chen Ziming was arrested in late 1989 for his involvement in the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests Continue reading
Chen Ziming – Veteran Dissident ‘Who Worried About China And Its People’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chen Ziming, June 4th, Tiananmen
October 22, 2014
HRIC has learned that, Chen Shuqing (陈树庆), a core member of the China Democracy Party’s Zhejiang Committee, has been formally arrested. The official charge cannot be confirmed at this Continue reading
Zhejiang Activist Chen Shuqing Formally Arrested已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged CHEN SHUQING
7:30 pm HKT Oct 22, 2014
People take photos during a vigil held to mark the 24th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square, in front of a backdrop of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City (back), in Hong Kong, on June 4, 2013. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
One of the two activists identified as the Continue reading
Tiananmen Protest ‘Black Hand’ Chen Ziming Dies in Beijing已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chen Ziming, June 4th, Tiananmen
Ian Johnson MAY 8, 2014 ISSUE
The Contest of the Century: The New Era of Competition with China—and How America Can Win
by Geoff Dyer
Knopf, 308 pp., $26.95
Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China
by Stephen Roach
Yale University Press, 326 pp., $32.50
China Goes Global: The Partial Power
by David Shambaugh
Oxford University Press, 409 pp., $29.95 Continue reading
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
Posted in Book Reviews, Human Rights Lawyer, Teng Biao
Tagged Teng Biao
President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign is beginning to encompass all forms of thought and expression, even moderate ones, not approved by the ruling party.
By Peter Ford, Staff Writer OCTOBER 18, 2014
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PICUN, CHINA — When she got off school last Thursday, Huang Qiufeng, Continue reading
Sensing subversion, China throws the book at kids’ libraries已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
7:36 pm HKT Oct 13, 2014
A man reads a book while practicing tai chi. Rumors that a ban on some authors has boosted their sales in China. Reuters
Having a book Continue reading