1989: Background Reading
As we mark the 30th anniversary of the 1989 protest movement in China, and the subsequent military...
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Cambridge University Press U-turns on Journal Cuts
Late last week, news came that Cambridge University Press had agreed to remove 315 articles from...
Rights Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang to Stand Trial on Monday
More than a year and a half after prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang’s detention ahead of...
Murong Xuecun: Corrupting the Chinese Language
At The New York Times, writer and free speech advocate Murong Xuecun looks at the lasting effect...
Foreign Affairs: Seven Views on China Now
The heavily China-focused May/June issue of Foreign Affairs includes “seven authoritative...
Inventing a Crime in the Case Against Pu Zhiqiang
Rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang has been detained since May while prosecutors build a case against him...
China Tightens Leash on Mainland & Hong Kong Press
As one set of new press regulations follows another, The Telegraph’s Malcolm Moore describes...
Imprisoned Nobel Laureate Might Not Accept Parole
The New York Times’ Didi Kirsten Tatlow discusses the prospects for imprisoned Nobel...
China Quiets Criticism Abroad as 1989’s Shadow Fades
As China goes to new lengths to impose silence at home ahead of the Tiananmen crackdown’s...
Tiananmen Anniversary Prompts Campaign of Silence
With the 25th anniversary of the 1989 June 4th crackdown now only a week away, The New York...
China After Tiananmen: Money, Yes; Ideas, No
The New York Review of Books reprints a chapter by Perry Link in Rowena He’s Tiananmen Exiles:...
Letter From Liu Xiaobo’s Wife Surfaces
Austin Ramzy reports for The New York Times on a newly emerged personal letter by Liu Xia, who has...
Bloomberg Under Continued Fire Over Self-Censorship
The Committee to Protect Journalists’ International Press Freedom Awards will take place in...
Reuters: Zhou Yongkang Not Direct Target of Investigation
Challenging recent claims in the South China Morning Post, Reuters reports that former security...
Censoring the News Before It Happens
At The New York Review of Books, Perry Link discusses CDT’s ‘Directives from the Ministry of Truth’ series of leaked propaganda instructions: In the end […], none of the parts of [CDT founder and...
‘Hi! I’m Fang!’ The Man Who Changed China
At The New York Review of Books, Perry Link shares eight favorite memories of “astrophysicist, activist, and dissident” Fang Lizhi, who died on April 6th last year. In May, 1989, while student demonstrators were in...
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....
In China’s Cyberspace, Dissent Speaks Code
At The Wall Street Journal, CDT’s editor in chief Xiao Qiang and Perry Link describe the use of online slang, such as sardonic honorifics and the “involuntary passive”, to not only sidestep censors but also...
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