Secret Historians Preserve the Past Amid State Amnesia
In effort to safeguard Party legitimacy, official history glosses over much of the brutality...
by Josh Rudolph | Mar 12, 2015
In effort to safeguard Party legitimacy, official history glosses over much of the brutality...
by Xiao Qiang | Aug 20, 2008
Beijing-based writer Xu Xing (徐星) wrote the following post on his Xintianyou blog, translated by CDT: I had coffee with two foreign colleagues. We naturally talked about the Olympics. They asked me, with smiles on their faces,...
by Paulina Hartono | Jun 4, 2008
While the resigned law professor Xiao Han just broke the Tiananmen Massacre taboo in a university classroom early this year, it is not the first time such words have been written and published in the Chinese blogosphere. Here is...
by Xiao Qiang | Feb 1, 2008
Beijing based writer Xu Xing wrote following post on his Xintianyou blog, thanks to M. J.’s translation: Whenever I hear these words, I feel them grate upon my ears. Especially when I hear them from major talk show hosts of...
by Paulina Hartono | Jan 24, 2008
Beijing based writer Xu Xing wrote following post on his Xintianyou blog, thanks to M. J.’s translation: When I log onto MSN, an online buddy sends me a link. Thinking it is some sort of surprise, I click it – it is about...
by Paulina Hartono | Jan 13, 2008
Beijing based writer Xu Xing wrote following post on his Xintianyou blog, thanks to M. J.’s translation: The phone rang suddenly last Thursday at about two in the morning. An old friend of mine, a Latin American girl, was crying to me on the line: “Old Xu my friend, I can’t not call you…I had […]
by Xiao Qiang | Jan 2, 2008
Born in 1956, Xu Xing (徐星) is a Beijing-based writer and also an occasional blogger. Xu’s latest book “Et tout le reste est pour toi” “And everything else is for you” was published by...