Beijing Formally Charges Writer Who Published Memoirs of Victims of Mao Era

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 →

Chen Ziming – Veteran Dissident ‘Who Worried About China And Its People’

A commentary by Bao Tong

2014-10-24

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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.
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Chen Ziming was arrested in late 1989 for his involvement in the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests Continue reading →

Zhejiang Activist Chen Shuqing Formally Arrested

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 →

Tiananmen Protest ‘Black Hand’ Chen Ziming Dies in Beijing

7:30 pm HKT Oct 22, 2014

 

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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 →

The China Challenge

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 →

China’s Unstoppable Lawyers: An Interview With Teng Biao

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 →

Sensing subversion, China throws the book at kids’ libraries

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 →

Book Ban Rumors Boost Authors in China

7:36 pm HKT Oct 13, 2014

 

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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 →