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Murong Xuecun Detained Over Tiananmen Square Event
After author Murong Xuecun issued a “statement of surrender” to Chinese authorities...
Murong Xuecun Asks To Be Arrested In China
At the Chinese Law Professor blog, Donald Clarke provides an English translation of writer Murong...
Bail or Banishment for Some Held Over 6/4 Anniversary
The passing of Wednesday’s Tiananmen anniversary has brought apparent resolution to the...
Tiananmen 25: Tight Controls On Square and Online
The weeks leading up to the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on Wednesday were marked by an unprecedented campaign of detentions, house arrests, forced or restricted travel, intimidation and surveillance. Those...
Tiananmen Anniversary Prompts Campaign of Silence
With the 25th anniversary of the 1989 June 4th crackdown now only a week away, The New York...
Murong Xuecun: I, Too, Will Stand Up for Tiananmen
Detentions and other restrictions continue as the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown...
Ai Xiaoming: Thinking of My Friends in Prison
Ai Xiaoming is a documentary filmmaker, activist, and professor of modern Chinese literature at...
Campaign to Smother Tiananmen Anniversary Continues
Rights lawyers Tang Jingling and Liu Shihui are among the latest to be detained as the government...
Xu Youyu on Defiance in Sensitive Times
China Change has posted an adaptation of a 2011 essay by liberal scholar and Charter 08 signatory...
Detentions Broaden as Tiananmen Anniversary Nears
Following the detention of prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang on Tuesday after a seminar last...
Big 2010 Stories Hushed, but Not Forgotten
China Media Project’s Ying Chan summarizes the major news stories in China in 2010 and the limits on Chinese journalists’ ability to reflect on the news: The first hints of trouble for news retrospectives and similar...
Xu Youyu (徐友渔): The Spirit of Tiananmen is Strong
Xu Youyu (徐友渔), professor and researcher at Philosophy Institute of The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), who has spoken about the democracy movement in China recently this year, writes for the Guardian about the June...
Xu Youyu (徐友渔): From 1989 to 2009: 20 Years of Evolution in Chinese Thought (2/2)
During Mother’s Day weekend on May 10th, a number of intellectuals in Beijing organized a seminar discussing 20 years of the democracy movement in China. The seminar started with a moment of silence, paying tribute to the...
Xu Youyu (徐友渔): From 1989 to 2009: 20 Years of Evolution in Chinese Thought (1/2)
During Mother’s Day weekend on May 10th, a number of intellectuals in Beijing organized a seminar discussing 20 years of the democracy movement in China. The seminar started with a moment of silence, paying tribute to the...
The Democracy Movement since 1989
Global Voices translates excerpts of presentations by intellectuals who gathered in Beijing to discuss the past twenty years of the democracy movement, posted by Oiwan Lam. The seminar started with a moment of silence, paying...
Is There Any Point in Taking on the Communist Party?
Richard Spencer writes in his Telegraph blog: Prof Xu [Xu Youyu (徐友渔)] said he was deeply pessimistic about the future. He acknowledged the point that there were leaders now in high office who had very similar experiences to his...
Contemporary Chinese Society’s Ideological Splits – Xu Youyu (徐友渔)
Translated by Michael Huang, from China Elections and Governance: China is currently experiencing a period of rapid social transformation. On the one hand, its social economy has scored tremendous achievements; on the other,...
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