Seven months after being detained by Chinese authorities shortly after landing in Guangzhou, Yang Hengjun was last week formally arrested on espionage charges. At CNN, Angus Watson and Steven Jiang report: His charges were announced by the Australian government. Yang’s Melbourne-based...
Yang Hengjun, a former employee at China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs who became an Australian citizen in the early 2000s and began a career writing English spy novels, was detained in January shortly after landing in Guangzhou...
As part of its ongoing campaign against Chinese influence in the country, the Australian...
Former Chinese diplomat Yang Hengjun, now an Australian citizen and spy novelist, was detained by...
Once an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yang Hengjun is a commentator and novelist...
In a blog post translated at The Diplomat, Yang Hengjun writes that China should not let...
Following Anne Stevenson-Yang and Ken DeWoskin’s discussion of what Beijing means by reform,...
The subject of corruption and its place in Chinese culture and society has been the focus of vigorous debate. Wen Jiabao stated in March that corruption poses the “most crucial threat” to Party rule; Murong Xuecun...
As former dictator’s corpse lay gawked-at in a commercial meat refrigerator in Misrata, The Associated Press reported on Moammar Gadhafi’s seamless reassessment by the Chinese media: … [State] media outlets...
An essay published by Caixin magazine describes the cases of two persecuted scholars, with thinly veiled allusion to contemporary China. Both men were imprisoned, accused of insanity and finally executed. Emperor...
When Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun mysteriously disappeared last month on a visit to Guangzhou, speculation was rife that he had been detained by security forces. Three days later, after he reappeared, he offered little...
“Friends, this afternoon I was finally able to contact Dr Yang. He is recovering: this has all been a misundertanding, and he will able to get online in the coming two days. He asked me to wish everyone well, and express...
Word is spreading on Twitter that Yang Hengjun has been released following his apparent detention on Sunday. His situation, however, remains unclear. When asked about his detention, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Jiang...
Influential Australia-based blogger Yang Hengjun has not been heard from since soon after he arrived in Guangzhou, the Sydney Morning Herald reports: Yang Hengjun, who retired from the Chinese Foreign Ministry to become a...
China Media Project translates a blog post by Yang Hengjun on why “leftist” scholars like Wang Hui have found favor in the West, given their critical attitudes toward democracy and universal values. Yang Hengjun is a...
Blogger Yang Hengjun writes a biting critique of the book China’s Megatrends, written by John and Doris Naisbitt, in a new blog post, translated by China Media Project: This book is not even worth refuting. Please do not...
China Media Project summarizes a recent talk in Hong Kong by blogger Yang Hengjun: Mr. Yang, whose outspoken writing on public affairs has earned him the title “democracy huckster” among Chinese Web users, said in a public talk...
Roland Soong of ESWN translates a blog post by Guangzhou-based blogger and online novelist Yang Hengjun on the importance of having a critical eye towards the media and China: With the Internet, the Chinese people have a...
CNN explores what it calls an “literary renaissance” online in China. Some, like Guangzhou-based blogger and online novelist Yang Hengjun, believe that the the partnership between the Internet and literary expression...
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