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More Than We Wish to Know: Chen Guangcheng and the Truth about Chinese Human Rights Abuses

by Arthur Waldron
within Book Reviews, Foreign Affairs

October 30th, 2015

We hear endlessly of “change” and “reform” in China, and the United States has premised its policies on these promises. The memoirs of Chen Guangcheng paint a very different portrait.

Strength—a simple but seemingly superhuman strength of both conscience and body—is the great uniting theme of the story of Chen Guangcheng. Yet his deeply revealing memoirs, titled The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man’s Fight for Justice and Freedom in China, not only give us a glimpse into Continue reading

Chinese Dissident Accuses Top U.S. Diplomat of Lying

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BY ISAAC STONE FISHFEBRUARY 25, 2015 – 5:29

In April 2012, blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng escaped from house arrest in a rural village and sought refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. The ruling Chinese Communist Party Continue reading

China Detains Legal Activist Guo Yushan

GBN-EY771_1012cd_G_20141012031509uo Yushan Was Instrumental in the Escape of Dissident Chen Guangcheng in 2012

By JOSH CHIN CONNECT
Oct. 12, 2014 3:43 a.m. ET

Authorities in Beijing have criminally detained Guo Yushan, Continue reading

UN Panel Calls on China to Release Chen Guangcheng’s Nephew

By Joshua Lipes

2014-06-25


Chen Guangcheng at RFA in Washington, June 25, 2014.
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A United Nations panel has ruled that the nephew Continue reading

Chen Guangcheng appeared at Louisa Lim’s talk about her new Tiananmen book

 

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