Person of the Week: Cui Weiping
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...
Aug 22, 2012
It was a mere 30 minutes into the opening screening of the 9th annual Beijing Film Festival when...
Aug 3, 2012
A July 31 People’s Daily overseas edition editorial simultaneously called for internal reform and...
Jan 9, 2011
China Media Project’s Ying Chan summarizes the major news stories in China in 2010 and the limits on Chinese journalists’ ability to reflect on the news: The first hints of trouble for news retrospectives and similar...
Mar 25, 2010
Literature professor Cui Weiping has been barred from leaving China to attend a conference in the U.S., AP reports: Cui Weiping had her Chinese passport, U.S. visa and airplane ticket to Philadelphia in hand when, she said,...
Dec 29, 2009
From Global Voices: Charter 08 has been around for just over a year, reportedly gathered more than 10,000 signatures, and Liu Xiaobo, one of its founders, was sentenced to eleven years in prison on Christmas Day last week. While...
Jun 4, 2009
I cross-posted this essay on the Huffington Post today: Rebuilding China’s Moral Foundation by Telling the Truth About Tiananmen by Xiao Qiang Twenty years ago, the world watched as Chinese people stood up for freedom, and...
May 29, 2009
During Mother’s Day weekend on May 10th, a number of intellectuals in Beijing organized a seminar discussing 20 years of the democracy movement in China. The seminar started with a moment of silence, paying tribute to the...
May 18, 2009
Global Voices translates excerpts of presentations by intellectuals who gathered in Beijing to discuss the past twenty years of the democracy movement, posted by Oiwan Lam. The seminar started with a moment of silence, paying...
Apr 11, 2009
On March 28, Chengdu-based environmentalist, writer and former editor of Literati magazine (文化人) magazine Tan Zuoren (谭作人) was detained on allegations of subversion of state power. Tan’s crime? The following is from a...
Mar 1, 2009
The “grass-mud horse (草泥马)” has now become the icon of online resistance to censorship. It seems that everywhere the “river crabs (河蟹)” go, the “grass-mud horses” grow in numbers. Professor...
Nov 15, 2008
Duowei News journalist Wan Yizhong reports (translated by CDT): “When friends ask me to recommend some Chinese movies, I will always tell them to watch documentaries,” Beijing Film Academy professor Cui Weiping told Duowei News....
Sep 25, 2008
Professor Cui Weiping (崔卫平) teaches at the Beijing Film Academy. A literary and film critic and scholar, she is also known in Chinese intellectual circles for translating Václav Havel’s works into Chinese. She writes about...
Jan 15, 2007
Time.com published an article titled “A Chinese Movie at the Met” this week: The creators of The First Emperor were clearly intent on sharpening the film’s (already pretty clear) political stance. “Qin...