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No. 14 TIENCHI MARTIN-LIAO: Shocking Stories of Life and Death

–Publisher’s Afterword

From Wang Shiwei to Liu Xiaobo: Prisoners of Literary Inquisition under Communist Rule in China

Wenziyu-coverThis shocking book of life and death depicts a floating world of personal tragedy, conscience gone adrift, the loss of reason, a people’s shame and a nation’s fall. Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:Liu Xia and Her Dolls

September 26, 2012

A loss and a win for an artist in isolation.

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One of Liu Xia’s Doll Photographs

From The Silent Strength of Liu Xia. Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:A Loser at Home, a Winner in the Outside World

November 7, 2012

The Friedenspreis winner Liao Yiwu

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Liao Yiwu Frankfurt book fair 2010

Liao Yiwu, Chinese author and dissident, Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:If the government treats the people as its enemy…

November 21, 2012
The Chinese Communist Party has not yet blocked this website.

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greatfirewallofchina.org Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:The First Victim on the Altar of the Evil Empire

December 5, 2012

Success for one writer means punishment for the other.

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The recent Party Congress in Beijing (above) has placed further restrictions on dissidents in China. Photo: Remka Tanis. Creative Commons. Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:“Our love is a firm religious sentiment”: Love Behind Bars

December 19, 2012

The true love story of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia.

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Liu Xia

Liu Xia cries on December 6, 2012, Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:Yuan Tengfei: A Free Spirit in Darkness

January 16, 2013

The most famous maverick teacher in China.

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Photo from YouTube user Stephen Thompson.

If you were to attend one of Yuan Tengfei’s Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:Xi Jinping’s Black and White World

September 4, 2014

Is the Cultural Revolution making a comeback?

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CCP officer Zhang Yingwei. Photo provided by author.

The Cultural Revolution ended in August 1977, or so the 11th National Continue reading