China Link Alleged to Cyberattack as Hong Kong Tensions Grow

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Hong Kong police carry out crowd control drills at a local police college in Hong Kong on June 25, 2014 ahead of planned July 1 protests. Continue reading →

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Literary Activism: is poetry the strongest form of protest?

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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 →

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Leftover Women-The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China

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Leta Hong Fincher

After the 1949 revolution in China, Chairman Mao famously proclaimed that ‘women hold up half the sky.’ In the early years of the People’s Republic, Continue reading →

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Meet the Chinese women standing up to inequality

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Activists have ‘occupied’ men’s toilets, donned wedding dresses splashed with red and shaved heads to raise awareness

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Primark investigates claim of ‘cry for help’ note in trousers

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25 June 2014 Last updated at 12:46 ET

 

The customer said she found the SoS note inside a pair of trousers bought in Primark’s Belfast store


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Zhao Changqing-Four More New Citizens Movement Advocates Convicted, Sentenced to Between Two and Three-and-a-Half Years

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April 18, 2014

Four citizen activists involved in public calls for high-ranking officials to reveal their assets in 2013 have each been found guilty of “gathering a crowd to disrupt order in a public place.” Two of them—Ding Jiaxi (丁家喜) and Zhao Changqing (赵常青)—were accused of Continue reading →

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Banned Books Around the World

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October 4, 2012 Jen Rickard Blair

As Banned Books Week comes to a close, we shift our gaze upon the censorship of authors on an international scale. Below is a list of 17 books that have been banned in the last decade. The original version of this list can be found in WLT’s censorship issue published in September 2006. Continue reading →

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Perry Link Commented the Confucius Institutes

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Monday, June 23, 2014 – 1:07pm

Bob Kapp is right that China has a “marvelous cultural repertoire,” that Americans should learn more about it, that Chinese culture is best learned through Chinese language, that Chinese-language programs in North America need more resources, and that it would be nice if China pitched in. Continue reading →

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