Literary and Human Rights Group Maintains Uyghur Writer’s Innocence
PEN American Center is deeply troubled by reports that jailed Uyghur scholar and 2014 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award winner Ilham Tohti has been sentenced to a “heavy” jail term in a secret trial in China. Continue reading
PEN Alarmed by Reports of Secret Trial and Conviction in Tohti Case已关闭评论
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An Illustration from a Sixteenth Century German Book, Entitled “Imaginative Representation of the Cosmos in the Middle Ages.” Continue reading
A Jesuit Astronomer in a Qing Emperor’s Court-How Johann Adam Schall Shaped China’s Imperial Calendar已关闭评论
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Posted: 06/13/2014 3:48 pm EDT Updated: 06/13/2014 3:59 pm EDT Print Article
Photo credit: Adams , Jeffrey. “Orson Welles’s “The Trial”: Film Noir and the Kafkaesque.” College Literature. Continue reading
From Doctors to Kings: Who Are China’s ‘Old Friends’?已关闭评论
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:32 PM EDT
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei said Monday that his original posting on Instagram was a statement about the overuse of power in fighting terrorism. Continue reading
Ai Weiwei speaks out about Instagram leg-as-gun meme已关闭评论
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BY MEGHA RAJAGOPALAN AND BEN BLANCHARD
BEIJING Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:30am EDT
The trial of three people sentenced to death for their roles in an October attack on the edge of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square is seen in this still image taken from video in Urumqi city, June 16, 2014. Continue reading
China executes 13 people for “terrorist” attacks in Xinjiang已关闭评论
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2014-06-16
Visitors looking at photos of victims at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, June 11, 2014.
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Chinese Netizens, Commentators Slam ‘Massacre’ Article已关闭评论
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by Tienchi Martin-Liao / June 11, 2014
How the Chinese government’s hidden past is torturing its present.
In Memory of Tiananmen Square Protest
The Hong Kong Federation of Social Work students carry a tombstone with the names of June 4th victims in memory of the Tiananmen Square protests. Photo: Bandari Lei via Flickr. Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao: A Spectre is Haunting China—the Spectre of June 4已关闭评论
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