Israel’s war in Gaza has elicited increasing attention from the Sinophone world, as five months of violence have led to the deaths of 32,000 Palestinians, an imminent famine in northern Gaza, and little progress on freeing...
Scholar and poet Ablet Abdurishit Berqi is one of the 338 Uyghur intellectuals confirmed to be...
The following excerpts, translated by Anne Henochowicz, come from an essay written by Tang...
The following interview with University of Haifa Professor Nimrod Baranovitch was conducted in...
After a deadly fire in Beijing on November 18, authorities launched a crackdown on unsafe...
Liu Xia, the widow of recently deceased activist Liu Xiaobo, has been under house arrest and...
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of...
Following the death of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, his friends and...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Poet and publisher Shen Haobo was born in 1976 in Taixing, Jiangsu Province. He is a leading...
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...
At The New York Times’ ArtBeat, David Barboza reports that a nine-character calligraphy...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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