Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) is a monumental figure in modern Chinese history. The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate died in custody in a Shenyang hospital in 2017 while being treated for liver cancer. A prolific writer, Liu first rose...
Two journalists working for the U.S. government-funded Voice of America were detained for about...
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After he was denied re-entry to China eight times, Feng Zhenghu lived in Tokyo’s Narita Airport...
As China and the world pay tribute to one Nobel Peace Prize laureate, The Economist’s Gady...
The South China Morning Post reports that outspoken proponent of the freedom of expression and...
Economist Xia Yeliang (夏业良) will find out next month if his colleagues decide to vote him out of...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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’...
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....
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...
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...
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