Banned on Weibo: President Xi’s Facebook presence

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By David Bandurski | Posted on 2014-08-11
The following post by “Kid Shoes_1009” (小童鞋_1009), was deleted sometime before 1:02 AM today, August 11, 2014. Continue reading →

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Ottilie Mulzet: A veneer of erudition

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Ottilie Mulzet on translating László Krasznahorkai’s Seiobo there Below, winner of this year’s Best Translated Book Award

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Posted by Emma Cleave, Wednesday 6th August, 2014

I have a folder, partially virtual, partially real, entitled Continue reading →

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Prominent Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Released

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On Thursday, Chinese authorities released prominent human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng from Continue reading →

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Tibetan Writer Woeser Detained on Arrival at Lhasa Airport

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2014-08-08 

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Woeser in an undated photo.
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Updated at 2.45 p.m. ET on 2014-08-08

Beijing-based Tibetan poet and writer Tsering Woeser said Chinese Continue reading →

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 69 Years Later

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AUGUST 07, 2014

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan

“I hate war,” Koji Hosokawa told me as we stood next to the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan. The skeletal remains of the four-story building stand at the edge of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Continue reading →

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Prominent Rights Lawyer Is Freed From Chinese Prison, His Relatives Say

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By CHRIS BUCKLEYAUG. 7, 2014

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Gao Zhisheng in 2010. Credit Gemunu Amarasinghe/Associated Press

HONG KONG — One of China’s most famous dissident lawyers, Continue reading →

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How Can a Gentleman Appear Well-Read?

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JULY 30 2014 4:01 PM

By Troy Patterson

Please send your questions for publication to [email protected]. (Questions may be edited.)

What is the easiest way for me to become, or at least to appear to be, well-read?

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Troy Patterson.
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Thanks for your question.

The easiest way to appear to Continue reading →

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Finding George Orwell in Bangkok

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August 5, 2014 9:00 pm JST

EMMA LARKIN, Contributing writer

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George Orwell’s classic novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” which describes a surveillance society, was first published 65 years ago. © Reuters

BANGKOK — It is a Saturday afternoon and I am wandering Continue reading →

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