In the third part of a series on 30 years of reform, Bao Tong writes about Deng Xiaoping. From RFA: In October 1984, a group of university students spontaneously unfurled a banner that read “Hello Xiaoping” and...
Read MoreOn the eve of International Human Rights Day, the Chinese government has arrested prominent dissident writer Liu Xiaobo. Jane Macartney reports for the Times in Beijing: A leading dissident who organised a charter signed by...
Read MoreBao Tong, former top Communist Party aide to the ousted late Chinese premier, Zhao Ziyang, has been under house arrest at his Beijing home for nearly two decades after his boss’s fall from power during the 1989...
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: On Wednesday, China celebrated the beginning of its one-year countdown to the Beijing Olympics. Festivities and fireworks animated Tiananmen Square, a gathering place known also for its bloody memories. A...
Read MoreApparently many family members of the victims of the Shanxi slave labor case are not appeased by the recent sentences handed down to brick kiln management: “We are very angry. This sentence is too lenient,” said Zhang Shanlin, father of a young man so badly beaten and burned that he cannot walk without assistance. “The […]
Read MoreFrom RFA Unplugged blog: This clip was uploaded to YouTube by Duowei News, which appears to be an overseas Chinese-run news Web site[ZH]. Here is an English translation of the comments by Mo Shaoping, a Chinese lawyer well-known for defending political prisoners and representing clients in high-profile civil rights cases, like Gao Zhisheng‘s. All the […]
Read MoreIn the South China Morning Post, Frank Ching opines about the recent loosening of regulations for foreign media in China: Liberalised mainland regulations on foreign media came into effect on January 1 and already the difference can be seen. Foreign journalists no longer require approval to move around the country or conduct interviews. They need […]
Read MoreAmidst all the talk about China’s new rules allowing foreign reporters greater freedom to travel and conduct interviews, the American Journalism Review takes a skeptical view of China’s promises of press freedom for the 2008 Olympics. The piece begins by mentioning rules implemented last September that make Xinhua the sole legitimate distributor of foreign news […]
Read MoreHe Jiadong (‰ΩïÂÆ∂ʆã) died in mid-October in Beijing’s Tongren Hospital (Âê剪ÅÂåªÈô¢) at age 83. A top Party ideologue and would-be reformer, He was the writer and editor of a well-known revolutionary biography: „ÄäAll...
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: A former top aide in China’s Communist Party under house arrest at his Beijing home since the 1989 pro-democracy movement has called on Beijing to uphold civil rights and let go of one-party rule. In an essay broadcast Wednesday by RFA’s Mandarin service, Bao Tong, former aide to the late disgraced […]
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