Three Poems by Detained Uyghur Poet “Tarim”
Scholar and poet Ablet Abdurishit Berqi is one of the 338 Uyghur intellectuals confirmed to be...
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Translation: Tarim, a Uyghur Poet (Excerpt)
The following excerpts, translated by Anne Henochowicz, come from an essay written by Tang...
Translation: “He Deserves Respect”
The following interview with University of Haifa Professor Nimrod Baranovitch was conducted in...
Translation: “Beijing’s Cold Winds Are Behind You”
After a deadly fire in Beijing on November 18, authorities launched a crackdown on unsafe...
Concerns Remain After Liu Xia Appears in Online Video
Liu Xia, the widow of recently deceased activist Liu Xiaobo, has been under house arrest and...
Person of the Week: Liu Xia
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of...
Concerns Mount Over Safety and Health of Liu Xia
Following the death of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, his friends and...
Minitrue: Don’t Hype Story on Leiyang’s Angry Poet
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
“My Motherland is Not Made of Love,” by Shen Haobo
Poet and publisher Shen Haobo was born in 1976 in Taixing, Jiangsu Province. He is a leading...
“On the Plateau,” by Shen Haobo
Poet and publisher Shen Haobo was born in 1976 in Taixing, Jiangsu Province. He is a leading figure in the “Lower Body Poets” (下半身写作) contemporary poetry movement. Follow Shen on his Sina blog and Weibo account. Following is a...
$8.2 Million Calligraphy Scroll Said to Be Forgery
At The New York Times’ ArtBeat, David Barboza reports that a nine-character calligraphy...
Prison of the Mind: Liao Yiwu’s Memoir of Incarceration
At The New Yorker, Ian Buruma reviews Liao Yiwu’s prison memoir For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet’s Journey through a Chinese Prison. The book was rewritten twice after its first and second drafts were...
Testimony of Torture: Liao Yiwu Exposes Prison Brutality
Berlin-based writer Liao Yiwu talks to Der Spiegel about “Für ein Lied und hundert Lieder” (“For a Song and a Hundred Songs”), a memoir of his four years in prison. As well as the grisly conditions...
China Bars Liao Yiwu from Attending Sydney Writers’ Festival
Poet Liao Yiwu has been prevented from traveling to Australia to speak at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, the Guardian reports: Liao was due to talk about his new book, The Corpse Walker, in Sydney, and to read from his...
Liao Yiwu’s First Trip Abroad
In the New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch writes about poet Liao Yiwu’s recent trip to Germany to participate in the Berlin and Hamburg literary festivals: Late last month, Wen Huang, the Chicago-based English translator of the...
Dream Weaver
Time Magazine reviews a new book of poems by exiled poet Yang Lian, Lee Valley Poems: This collection — released last October in the U.K., but in the U.S. only last month — is a difficult but rich one, fully repaying the...
Liu Hongbin, Out of Exile: Language, Memory and Imagination
Since 1989, the poet Liu Hongbin has been trying to make his way back to China – Language, memory and imagination are part of the journey home. From the Index of Censorship: I finally boarded the plane, but just before it took...
Migrant workers find the pen is mightier than the plough – Jia Hepeng
From China Daily: Buckets are inseparable from the life and work of 32-year-old poet Liu Dongwu. Liu is chief editor of Nanfeiyan, a literary magazine based in Dongguan, South China’s Guangdong Province. The name translates as “wild goose flying southward.” Liu has managed to rise to literary fame from his hard beginnings as a migrant […]
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