To Chair Woman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee
Mrs. Kaci Kullmann
Former Chairman
Mr. Thorbjorn Jagland
Dear Mrs. Kullmann,
Dear Mr. Jagland,
The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mr. Liu Xiaobo is still kept in prison in China, he is serving his 11 years imprisonment and will not be released till 2020. Continue reading
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Madeleine Thien Photo: Babak Salari
Even during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, China maintained a symphony orchestra at the behest of Mao’s wife. It’s one of the surprising artifacts of history unearthed in Madeleine Thien’s latest novel, “Do Not Say We Have Nothing,” a rich, sprawling tale centered on tragedies that unfold at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music amid the brutal struggles of that era. Continue reading
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November 25 marks the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. This day was chosen to commemorate the brutal murders of three of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroines of the Dominican Republic. On November 25, 1960, Patria, Minerva and María Teresa Mirabal and their driver were stopped on the road by members of the secret police force of the dictator Rafael Trujillo and clubbed to death. Continue reading
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Adriana Ramirez, Mexican-Colombian nonfiction writer, storyteller, performance poet.
The strongest feeling I had on November 9th was indifference. Continue reading
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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg recently spent time with China’s leader Xi Jinping, as well as taking time to learn Mandarin. AP
Facebook worked on special software so it could potentially accommodate censorship demands in China, according to a report in the New York Times.
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Last week, a court in the eastern province of Shandong handed a five-year jail term to online activist Sun Feng after holding him in pretrial detention for two years, rights activists said. Continue reading
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Bina Shah, columnist for the New York Times and SampsoniaWay.org
Coming to middle America as a woman who had spent eleven years on the East Coast of America but also fifteen years living in Pakistan, the divides were more obvious to me than if I’d spent all my life living in, say, New York City. Continue reading
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Author Ha Jin’s latest novel, “The Boat Rocker,” follows an expatriate journalist who becomes embroiled in intrigue as he investigates a most unusual novel. Steven Senne The Associated Press. Continue reading
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