VOA Reporters Detained While Interviewing Sun Wenguang
Two journalists working for the U.S. government-funded Voice of America were detained for about...
Aug 14, 2018
Two journalists working for the U.S. government-funded Voice of America were detained for about...
Mar 29, 2018
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short...
Apr 13, 2017
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short...
Nov 13, 2015
After he was denied re-entry to China eight times, Feng Zhenghu lived in Tokyo’s Narita Airport...
Dec 6, 2013
As China and the world pay tribute to one Nobel Peace Prize laureate, The Economist’s Gady...
Oct 18, 2013
The South China Morning Post reports that outspoken proponent of the freedom of expression and...
Aug 17, 2013
Economist Xia Yeliang (夏业良) will find out next month if his colleagues decide to vote him out of...
Feb 17, 2013
At The Washington Post, Perry Link and CDT founder Xiao Qiang point out a hollow in Xi Jinping’s “China dream”, between individuals’ material wishes and the “spiritual” goals of the state....
Jan 23, 2013
At The Economist’s Analects blog, Sascha Matuszak profiles liberal writer and microblogger Li Chengpeng, from his exposure of corruption in Chinese soccer to his recent book tour dogged by enforced silence and political...
Dec 26, 2012
An open letter released on Christmas Day seeks to sway the new Party leadership towards renewed political reform, encouraged by Xi Jinping and others’ strong words against corruption and bureaucratic excesses. From...
Jun 7, 2012
At Slate, William J. Dobson profiles renowned rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, a veteran of June 4th, Charter 08 signatory and friend of Liu Xiaobo, and defender of figures such as Ai Weiwei and Tan Zuoren. The profile is taken from...
Feb 26, 2012
The New York Times’ Edward Wong talks to writer Yu Jie, who left China for the United States last month, about the experiences that drove him to leave, his Christian faith and his plans for the future. … He began thinking...
Dec 22, 2011
Sichuan dissident writer Chen Wei is to stand trial in Suining on Friday, pleading not guilty to charges of inciting subversion of state power. (See update below.) From Reuters: Chen, 42, was one of hundreds of dissidents,...
Nov 30, 2011
Foreign Policy magazine’s December issue features its annual list of “Top 100 Global Thinkers”, of whom several are from or otherwise connected to China. The listing also includes a number of nominees’...
Feb 1, 2011
The following essay was written by Hao Jian, a personal friend of Nobel Peace Prize awardee Liu Xiaobo and a fellow drafter of Charter 08: Liu Xiaobo, whose name means “morning wave,” is known to his friends as Xiaobo or Liubo....
Dec 9, 2010
Beijing’s far-reaching efforts to keep Chinese supporters of Liu Xiaobo from attending the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo reveal an increasingly anxious undercurrent in China. Please read the article in Foreign Policy...
Oct 22, 2010
Nobel laureates Václav Havel and Desmond M. Tutu call for the release of Liu Xiaobo in the Washington Post: As we write, Liu remains cloistered in a remote prison in northeast China. This fourth prison sentence of 11 years came...
Oct 10, 2010
David Kelly, a Professor of China Studies at the China Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney, counters arguments that Liu Xiaobo’s activism represents undue influence from the west and not homegrown Chinese...