Open Letter to China Leader Criticizes June 4 Detentions

By THE INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES JUNE 8, 2014
An open letter to the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, criticizing the arrests of scholars, writers and others before the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary, was signed as of Wednesday by 79 international China scholars. Continue reading

Bernard Wasserstein’s ‘Ambiguity of Virtue,’ and More

By DAGMAR HERZOGJUNE 6, 2014


Credit Illustration by John Gall
By Götz Aly

Metropolitan/Holt, $30. Continue reading

China censors sweep web of Tiananmen references

POSTED: 05 Jun 2014 19:07

China’s state censors on Thursday scrubbed the Internet of references to commemorations of the Tiananmen incident including a huge vigil in Hong Kong, extending a campaign of repression that has seen dozens of critics detained. Continue reading

The latest New York Times best-seller lists

 

June 08,2014-June 22,2014

COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK FICTION

SKIN GAME, by Jim Butcher

UNLUCKY 13, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

AIR BOUND, by Christine Feehan Continue reading

LACMA Chinese art curator Yu Yu to lead USC Pacific Asia Museum

 


Christina Yu Yu

USC is hiring Christina Yu Yu, a curator of Asian Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Continue reading

Restrictions, Detentions, and Disappearances before June 4, 2014

Compiled by HRIC based on published reports and information available online. Last updated on June 6, 2014. Total Count: 126 individuals. (Those with an asterisk have been released). Continue reading

New York Review of Books slams CIA with Twitter attack

August and technophobic literary journal released a barrage of reminders of agency’s controversial interrogation techniques

Lauren Gambino in New York
theguardian.com, Saturday 7 June 2014 15.47 EDT
CIA central intelligence agency. Continue reading

China lawyers demand access to activists detained ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

By AP News Jun 08, 2014 1:35PM UTC

China Tiananmen Anniversary Continue reading