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Statues of Confucius and his 72 students inside the Chongshengci at the Temple of Confucius in Beijing, first constructed in 1302.
Last week, ChinaFile published a discussion on the debate over Confucius Institutes–Chinese language Continue reading
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Marchers carried a scaled-down replica of the Goddess of Democracy, an icon of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, during Hong Kong’s pro-democracy demonstration Tuesday.Credit Kin Cheung/Associated Press
Cecilia Ng was born seven years after the Goddess of Democracy statue in Tiananmen Square was Continue reading
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Kutti Revathi (Dr. S. Revathi) has been an important Tamil voice in the feminist space in India, dealing with the politics of the female body through poetry, her chosen literary form. Some of her poems, such as “Mulaigal” (Breasts), Continue reading
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Set up in 2004, the Poetry Translation Centre supports the translation of poetry Continue reading
My Voice: a Decade of Poems from the Poetry Translation Centre – book tour已关闭评论
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Two Tibetan writers, Jangtse Donkho (pen name: Nyen/”The Wrathful”) and Buddha, who were accused of publishing reactionary and separatist writings on the experience of being Tibetan under Chinese rule, were released on 20 June 2014 Continue reading
By CHESTER YUNG, EDWARD NGAI and NED LEVIN CONNECT
Updated July 2, 2014 2:37 a.m. ET
Protesters are taken away by police officers after a sit-in in Hong Kong’s financial district. Kin Cheung/Associated Press
HONG KONG—Police arrested 511 people who refused to leave a street in the financial Continue reading
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By China Change, published: June 26, 2014
Apart from Beijing and Guangzhou, the other Chinese city where large-scale arrests of citizen activists and rights lawyers have taken place is Zhengzhou (郑州), midway on the Beijing-Guangzhou transportation artery and the capital of Henan province (河南省). Continue reading
