Rebel Pepper Struggles to Survive in Japan
Last month, cartoonist Wang Liming, also known by his pen name Rebel Pepper, issued a public...
exiles
World Uyghur Congress an “Easy Target” for Hackers
At Ars Technica, Robert Lemos reports that outdated software helps make a prominent exile Uyghur...
China: US Has No Right to Comment on Activists’ Fate
With the fifth anniversary of Liu Xiaobo’s most recent arrest, his wife Liu Xia suffering...
HK Officials Reject Tiananmen Dissident’s Surrender Bid
In another attempt to return to the country of his birth, exiled June 4th dissident Wu’er...
Chen Guangcheng Announces New Think Tank Posting
Exiled activist Chen Guangcheng has announced that he will become a fellow at the Witherspoon...
Prison of the Mind: Liao Yiwu’s Memoir of Incarceration
At The New Yorker, Ian Buruma reviews Liao Yiwu’s prison memoir For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet’s Journey through a Chinese Prison. The book was rewritten twice after its first and second drafts were...
Chen Guangcheng Case Widens Political Rift
The rift over exiled legal activist Chen Guangcheng’s departure from New York University is deepening, with both defenders and detractors of his claims that NYU kicked him out for political reasons continuing to speak out....
A Hundred Songs: Liao Yiwu Visits U.S.
At The Wall Street Journal, Sofia McFarland and Liao Yiwu discuss Liao’s memoir of his four-year imprisonment following the 1989 June 4th crackdown, For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet’s Journey through a Chinese...
Book Recommendations From Ma Jian
Exiled Chinese author Ma Jian, whose newest novel The Dark Road saw its North American release yesterday, gave a very personal interview to the Daily Beast. The interview touches on everything from the...
‘The Dark Road’ and Ma Jian on Censorship
Following the UK release of his latest novel, The Dark Road, the Index on Censorship talks to exiled writer Ma Jian about his career, Beijing’s longstanding ban on his work, the value of free expression, the legacy of...
Exiled Poet Liao Yiwu’s Prison Memoir Released in France
Liao Yiwu spent the early 1990s in prison for writing the poem Massacre, about the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. His account of these four years will be published in English this summer as For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A...
Chen Guangcheng Begins Life in New York
At The Daily Beast, Melinda Liu described the beginning of Chen Guangcheng and his family’s life in New York as they embraced the spring sunshine while avoiding, for now, the glare of the media. Feeling the warm sun on his...
Chen Guangcheng Speaks from New York
Chen Guangcheng, who arrived in New York on Saturday, greeted a cheering crowd outside New York University with a short speech. From NTDTV, via Shanghaiist: From the Associated Press: “I believe that no matter how...
Chen Guangcheng Arrives in New York
Following his sudden departure last night from his hospital in Beijing, legal activist Chen Guangcheng arrived in New York and greeted the media near New York University, where he is expected to take up a fellowship. From CNN:...
Wu’er Kaixi: China’s “Most Unwanted”
Former Tiananmen protest leader and long-exiled dissident Wu’er Kaixi marched up to the Chinese Embassy in Washington today, looking to get arrested. In a seeming inversion of recent appeals to U.S. diplomatic missions in...
Chen Guangcheng: “Free Citizen”, Uncertain Future
Hu Jia, an activist who was detained for over 24 hours after meeting with the escaped Chen Guangcheng last week, has said that police admitted during his questioning that Chen and his supporters had done nothing wrong in the...
Philip Gourevitch: Liao Yiwu Unbound
For the New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch writes about writer Liao Yiwu’s recent move to Germany: Liao, who is best known in America for his book, “The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up,” is not only a...
“China’s Conscience” Silently Returns
China Media Project has translated the remarks by Liu Dahong at the funeral of his father, pioneering Chinese journalist Liu Binyan. The elder Liu was expelled from the Communist Party in 1987 and lived out his life in exile in...
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