memoirs

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...

Poet Liao Yiwu’s Nightmare in Chinese Prison

At The New York Times, Elaine Sciolino talks to poet and author Liao Yiwu about his forthcoming memoir For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet’s Journey Through a Chinese Prison, to be published in the U.S. on June 4th. The title...

Chen Guangcheng on Disability & Human Rights

On WNYC and PRI’s The Takeaway, blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng discusses disability as “a mirror to society”, the importance of proactive defence of one’s own rights, and his continued determination...

Testimony of Torture: Liao Yiwu Exposes Prison Brutality

Berlin-based writer Liao Yiwu talks to Der Spiegel about “Für ein Lied und hundert Lieder” (“For a Song and a Hundred Songs”), a memoir of his four years in prison. As well as the grisly conditions...

China Calls Foul Over Tell-all Sports Memoir

Could China have engaged in underhand dealings to secure Beijing as its 2008 Olympics site? According to a memoir by Yuan Weimin, former Olympics coach and former head of the Chinese Olympic Committee, the answer is yes. Not...

Diane Wei Liang: A Life in China

The World has posted a lengthy interview with Diane Wei Liang, author of Lake with No Name: A True Story of Love and Conflict in Modern China. Listen to it here: Diane Wei Liang has lived a life framed by events in China’s...

Frank Ching: An Old Idea That Really Would Set China Free

From New Straits Times: The publication of the secretly recorded memoirs of former Chinese party leader Zhao Ziyang, who spent the last 16 years of his life under house arrest for opposing the crackdown on student protesters in...

Zhao Memoir Goes on Sale

The Chinese edition of the memoirs of Zhao Ziyang (赵紫阳), former general secretary of the Chinese Communist Pary, went on sale in Hong Kong on Friday, May 29, exactly 20 years after he was forced from power for opposing the...

Lai Changxing Writes His Memoirs – ESWN

From the EastSouthWestNorth blog: Lai Changxing is the smuggling kingpin involved in the greatest known corruption case in the history of the People’s Republic of China. He is presently fighting a deportation order in Canada and part of his argument is based upon the fact that Canada does not deport people to countries where they […]

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