By AMY QIN JULY 17, 2014 4:47 AMJuly 17, 2014 7:15 am
Is Superman, depicted here in a mural in Beijing, a weapon being deployed to turn Chinese away from their own heroes?Credit Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency
Tensions between the United States and China over Continue reading
17 July 2014 RAN
Five journalists with the Unity weekly journal, arrested in January and February 2014, were each sentenced to 10 years in prison with hard labour on 10 July 2014 over a report about an Continue reading
MYANMAR: Five journalists sentenced to 10 years in prison; 50 others face charges for a peaceful protest已关闭评论
Posted in PEN International News, Rapid Action Network
Tagged Journalists, Myanmar, Sentenced to Prison
Investigative journalists in China have always had to bow to censorship and worry about being arrested. But this year, the Communist party has stopped them from working altogether
Malcolm Moore By Malcolm Moore, Beijing7:00AM BST 17 Jul 2014
For years a journalist who I shall call Mr Chen has run the investigation unit of one of China’s most daring newspapers. Continue reading
Advice for journalists in China: Hire a lawyer已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged China, Investigative Journalists, Journalists, Lawyer
Perry Link, with Ian Johnson
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A sit-in for democratic rights in Hong Kong’s central district, July 1, 2014
The former British colony of Hong Kong reverted to China on July 1, 1997, and on every July 1 since Continue reading
Hong Kong Rising: An Interview with Albert Ho已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Albert Ho, Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
By EDWARD WONG JULY 16, 2014 6:00 PMJuly 17, 2014 9:30 am
The Chinese term for schadenfreude is xingzai lehuo (幸灾乐祸), and it does not take long for the sentiment to surface at the mention of Rui Chenggang, the smooth-talking state television anchor who was handed to prosecutors last Friday.
Especially delighted are liberal Chinese intellectuals, Continue reading
Star Anchor’s Real Sin May Have Been Hypocrisy已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines
Tagged CCTV, Ling Jihua, Rui Chenggang, Zhou Yongkang
gordimer600spanby Margie Orford, President of South African PEN
Nadine Gordimer was a passionately cerebral writer, and her death confirms the passing Continue reading
Nadine Gordimer: A pen guided by a moral compass to the end已关闭评论
Posted in PEN International News
Tagged Nadine Gordimer, South African PEN
By ANDREW JACOBS JULY 16, 2014 2:26 AMJuly 16, 2014 11:09 am
Li Xuewen.
Li Xuewen.Credit Courtesy of Li Xuewen
Li Xuewen, an essayist and playwright in Beijing, has been fired from his job as a book editor Continue reading
Book Editor Says His Firing Was Linked to Tiananmen Gathering已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Firing, June 4th, Li Xuewen, Lijiang Publishing House, Tiananmen
July 20 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | £8/£4
Poets from around the globe share their views and personal experiences as part of the Poetry International Festival at London’s Southbank Centre. Continue reading
Literary Activism: is poetry the strongest form of protest?已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, PEN International News
Tagged English PEN, Literary Activism, Poetry, Poetry International Festival
