VOA Reporters Detained While Interviewing Sun Wenguang
Two journalists working for the U.S. government-funded Voice of America were detained for about...
Charter 08
Person of the Week: Xia Yeliang
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Person of the Week: Cui Weiping
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Feng Zhenghu: Thinking of Liu Xiaobo
After he was denied re-entry to China eight times, Feng Zhenghu lived in Tokyo’s Narita Airport...
Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo: Dark Matter
As China and the world pay tribute to one Nobel Peace Prize laureate, The Economist’s Gady...
Peking University Expels Liberal Prof Xia Yeliang
The South China Morning Post reports that outspoken proponent of the freedom of expression and...
US Intellectuals Show Support for Xia Yeliang
Economist Xia Yeliang (夏业良) will find out next month if his colleagues decide to vote him out of...
Striving for Freedom in the Chinese New Year
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....
Forced Silence Amplifies Li Chengpeng’s Voice
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...
Scholars Cautiously Urge Political Reform
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...
Pu Zhiqiang: How to Handle the Police
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...
From Virginia Suburb, Yu Jie Continues His Mission
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...
Chen Wei Sentenced to 9 Years for Online Essays (Updated)
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,...
China and Chinese in Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers List
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’...
Hao Jian: “Black Stallion,” “Black Hand,” and Good Writer: Liu Xiaobo
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....
The Nobel Crackdown
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...
Václav Havel and Desmond M. Tutu: If China Frees Nobel Winner, It Will Show its Strength
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...
David Kelly: Liu Xiaobo and Universal Values
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...
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