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Ai Weiwei: “China Must Recognize Itself”
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei served as guest editor and appears on cover of the latest issue of British magazine New Statesman, in which he leads with a challenge for China to re-evaluate and recognize...
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Toys, Birds Harmonized Amid Beijing Security Crackdown
In addition to taxi cabs, Reuters reports that even the pigeons of Beijing must adhere to heightened restrictions as officials in the Chinese capital take no chances ahead of next week’s 18th Party...
View ArticleThe Five Vermin Threatening China
The China Story has posted a translation of ‘Where Are the Real Threats to China?’ by Yuan Peng, which was originally published in the overseas edition of People’s Daily in July. In his introduction,...
View ArticleActivists, 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...
View ArticleMo Yan Addresses Critics in Nobel Lecture
Nobel-winning author Mo Yan delivered his official lecture in Stockholm on Friday, recounting his development as a storyteller through tales of his rural upbringing and especially of his relationship...
View ArticleRe-education Through Labor To Be “Abolished”
Following reports, which were later removed from official news websites, that the re-education through labor (laojiao) system would be reformed, officials have now made the “most authoritative”...
View ArticleLawyer: Liu Xiaobo Reading, “Gaining Weight”
Didi Kirsten Tatlow of The New York Times catches up with Mo Shaoping, a Beijing lawyer who defended the brother of jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo’s wife in court on Tuesday: Liu Xiaobo, the jailed...
View ArticlePolice Silence Visitors to Executed Dissident’s Grave
Monday marked the 45th anniversary of the execution of Lin Zhao, a dissident who wrote criticisms of the government in her own blood while in prison. Despite her official rehabilitation in 1981,...
View ArticleWas Fang Lizhi a “Black Hand” in 1989?
Fang Lizhi, the prominent astrophysicist who was sheltered by the US embassy and then fled China after the 1989 pro-democracy protests, denies any role behind the movement in his newly-published...
View ArticleAi Weiwei: “I Will Not Stop”
David Sheff speaks with Ai Weiwei in a wide-ranging interview for Playboy Magazine, in which the dissident artist discusses imprisonment, free speech and the internet, as well as his time spent in the...
View ArticleChina Approves Passports for Chen Guangcheng’s Family
China has granted passports to the mother and eldest brother of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, according to Reuters: Eldest brother Chen Guangfu said a passport application for him and his...
View ArticleLiu Xiaobo’s Brother-in-Law Sentenced
On June 8, a court in suburban Beijing sentenced Liu Xiaobo’s brother-in-law Liu Hui to 11 years in prison for fraud, in a case some fear is a “warning to the whole family.” From Isolda Morillo at the...
View ArticleAi Weiwei’s Eighty-One Days
Maura Cunningham reviews Barnaby Martin’s Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Wei Wei for the Times Literary Supplement. The book is based on a series of interviews with the artist about his detention in...
View ArticleWoeser 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...
View ArticleChen Guangcheng Case Widens Political Rift
The rift over exiled legal activist Chen Guangcheng’s departure from New York University is deepening, with both defenders and detractors of his claims that NYU kicked him out for political reasons...
View ArticleTsering Woeser: Tweeting the Truth
At The Times of India, Shobhan Saxena profiles Tsering Woeser, the prominent Tibetan dissident writer: Born in Tibet in 1966, Woeser is a poet, writer, blogger and chronicler of Tibetan life and...
View ArticleHua Ze: Misrule of Law
Hua Ze, a documentary filmmaker, has written an op-ed in the New York Times defending the work of lawyer and activist Xu Zhiyong, who has been detained since July 16: Mr. Xu didn’t sit in his study...
View ArticleXu Zhiyong Formally Arrested
Lawyer and activist Xu Zhiyong has been formally arrested on charges of “assembling a crowd to disrupt order in a public place.” Xu was detained from his home in Beijing on July 16. The New York Times...
View ArticleOfficials Thwart US Doc’s Bid to Visit Ailing Dissident
According to family members of Zhu Yufu, who has been serving a seven year prison sentence for “inciting subversion of state power” over a poem he wrote during Beijing’s 2011 crackdown on dissent in...
View ArticleXia Yeliang Dismissal: Academics or Politics?
Last week, Peking University dismissed Professor Xia Yeliang, an economics scholar and vocal critic of the Chinese government who was a co-signer of the pro-democracy Charter 08 initiated by imprisoned...
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