Minds Unfettered and the Rival Spirits of May Fourth
Last week brought the 100th anniversary of the start of the May Fourth movement, a pivotal moment...
by Samuel Wade | May 12, 2019
Last week brought the 100th anniversary of the start of the May Fourth movement, a pivotal moment...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 19, 2019
Just following news that a film by Zhang Yimou about the Cultural Revolution was excluded from the...
by Cindy | Aug 5, 2018
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei posted videos on Instagram showing Chinese authorities razing his...
by Sophie Beach | Jul 10, 2017
Ailing Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo remains in the First Hospital of China Medical...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 3, 2016
The Chinese government has in recent years spent considerable resources and effort on bolstering...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 26, 2016
Civil rights lawyer Xia Lin was sentenced last week to 12 years in jail for fraud, the harshest...
by Anne Henochowicz | Sep 23, 2016
Rights defense lawyer Xia Lin has just been dealt a 12-year prison sentence for fraud, seeming...
by Cindy | Aug 26, 2016
Ningxia’s Yinchuan Musuem of Contemporary Art has removed the work of artist-activist Ai...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 19, 2016
The question of whether authors should accept censorship in exchange for publication within China...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 22, 2015
The following Internet commentary instructions, issued to the media by government authorities,...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 25, 2015
As Ai Weiwei asks supporters to drop donated Lego through the sunroofs of strategically parked...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 26, 2015
Cartoonists Rebel Pepper and Badiucao address the ongoing uproar over toymaker Lego’s...
by Josh Rudolph | Oct 16, 2015
With the 68th annual Frankfurt Book Fair, the world’s largest gathering of the publishing...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 13, 2015
In Berlin, Ian Johnson sat down with both writer Liao Yiwu, who has lived there since 2011, and Ai...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 4, 2015
On July 9, human rights lawyer Wang Yu was detained from her Beijing home, becoming the first of...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 7, 2015
Following the return of Ai Weiwei’s passport after a four-year effective travel ban,...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 31, 2015
British home secretary Theresa May has reversed a decision to grant Chinese artist Ai Weiwei a...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 30, 2015
Last week, Chinese authorities finally returned artist Ai Weiwei’s passport, removing a barrier to...