China’s Predictive Policing and “Digital Totalitarianism”
Human Rights Watch’s Maya Wang warned this week about Chinese authorities’ combination...
Wang Lixiong
How China’s Liberals and Students Feel About Trump
Like many around the world who are coming to grips with a Trump presidency, ordinary Chinese are...
China Bars Wang Lixiong From Traveling to Japan
Radio Free Asia reports that writer, historian, and frequent critic of China’s ethnic...
Harsh Sentence for Uyghur Scholar May Fuel Radicalism
After receiving an unexpectedly harsh life sentence for separatism on Tuesday, Uyghur scholar...
Ilham Tohti Receives Life Sentence for Separatism
An Urumqi court passed an unexpectedly heavy sentence of life imprisonment for separatism on...
On Ilham Tohti: “They Don’t Want Moderate Uyghurs”
With a verdict against Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti expected on Tuesday following his trial for...
Beyond the Dalai Lama: Woeser and Wang Lixiong
In a two-part interview at The New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson talks to Tibetan writer...
Tibetan Activist Woeser on Her Latest House Arrest
Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser discusses her recent house arrest and the current situation in Tibet...
Tibetan Writer Woeser’s House Arrest Ends (Updated)
Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser reports that she and her husband Wang Lixiong have once again been...
Viral Control: The Net in Wang Lixiong’s New Novel
Wang Lixiong is one half of a writer-activist couple in Beijing. His wife, Tsering Woeser, is...
From Pakistan, Uyghur Separatist Vows Revenge on China
After the deadly Kunming train station attack on March 1 highlighted growing tensions between the...
Wang Lixiong: The Elephant and the Mouse
In the wake of a deadly attack by knife-wielding assailants in the Kunming train station, and amid...
“When it Comes to Domestic Spying, US is no China”
After revealing his identity to The Guardian in Hong Kong (via CDT) and before beginning a long layover at the Moscow airport, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden publicly mentioned that the U.S. has long been hacking into Chinese...
Woeser Under House Arrest Once Again
Since 2008, Tibetan writer, activist, and blogger Woeser has repeatedly found herself (along with her husband Wang Lixiong) under house arrest. According to a post published yesterday on her Chinese-language blog, Wang and...
Woeser: Apple “Surrendered” to Chinese Government
Earlier this month, Apple removed an app including three of dissident writer Wang Lixiong’s books from its App Store in China. Wang’s wife, the famous Tibetan blogger Tsering Woeser accuses Apple of bowing to the...
Open Letter Calls for Ratification of Human Rights Covenant (Updated)
Ahead of the National People’s Congress annual session next month, during which Xi Jinping is expected to take over as state president, a group of 100 prominent intellectuals, journalists, and lawyers have penned an open...
Last-words Analysis: Why Do Tibetans Self-immolate?
Following a surge in self-immolations in Tibetan areas in late 2012, authorities cracked down on access to news and information in the region. In recent weeks, the number of self-immolations seems to have slowed, or at least...
Activists, Petitioners Not Invited to Party Congress
To ensure that the 18th Party Congress runs harmoniously, authorities have recruited an army of 1.4 million volunteers, further disrupted internet access, placed restrictions on fruit knives, taxi windows, ping pong balls,...
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