Three Poems by Detained Uyghur Poet “Tarim”
Scholar and poet Ablet Abdurishit Berqi is one of the 338 Uyghur intellectuals confirmed to be...
Mar 13, 2019
Scholar and poet Ablet Abdurishit Berqi is one of the 338 Uyghur intellectuals confirmed to be...
Mar 13, 2019
The following excerpts, translated by Anne Henochowicz, come from an essay written by Tang...
Mar 13, 2019
The following interview with University of Haifa Professor Nimrod Baranovitch was conducted in...
Dec 1, 2017
After a deadly fire in Beijing on November 18, authorities launched a crackdown on unsafe...
Aug 21, 2017
Liu Xia, the widow of recently deceased activist Liu Xiaobo, has been under house arrest and...
Aug 10, 2017
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of...
Jul 14, 2017
Following the death of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, his friends and...
Jul 16, 2015
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Jun 18, 2014
Poet and publisher Shen Haobo was born in 1976 in Taixing, Jiangsu Province. He is a leading...
Jun 18, 2014
Poet and publisher Shen Haobo was born in 1976 in Taixing, Jiangsu Province. He is a leading figure in the “Lower Body Poets” (下半身写作) contemporary poetry movement. Follow Shen on his Sina blog and Weibo account. Following is a...
Dec 23, 2013
At The New York Times’ ArtBeat, David Barboza reports that a nine-character calligraphy...
Jun 24, 2013
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...
Nov 17, 2011
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...
May 9, 2011
Poet Liao Yiwu has been prevented from traveling to Australia to speak at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, the Guardian reports: Liao was due to talk about his new book, The Corpse Walker, in Sydney, and to read from his...
Sep 22, 2010
In the New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch writes about poet Liao Yiwu’s recent trip to Germany to participate in the Berlin and Hamburg literary festivals: Late last month, Wen Huang, the Chicago-based English translator of the...
May 27, 2010
Time Magazine reviews a new book of poems by exiled poet Yang Lian, Lee Valley Poems: This collection — released last October in the U.K., but in the U.S. only last month — is a difficult but rich one, fully repaying the...
Jun 15, 2009
Since 1989, the poet Liu Hongbin has been trying to make his way back to China – Language, memory and imagination are part of the journey home. From the Index of Censorship: I finally boarded the plane, but just before it took...
Feb 13, 2006
From China Daily: Buckets are inseparable from the life and work of 32-year-old poet Liu Dongwu. Liu is chief editor of Nanfeiyan, a literary magazine based in Dongguan, South China’s Guangdong Province. The name translates as “wild goose flying southward.” Liu has managed to rise to literary fame from his hard beginnings as a migrant […]