This year, we spoke to poets, journalists, filmmakers and novelists from India to Morocco, from France to Iran. We talked about revolution, the forgotten history of the United Farm Worker Movement in Texas, hereditary exile, writing as an act of defiance, and much more.
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Germany’s miserable divided past is China’s present reality. Forty years ago, singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann saw the truth of China’s situation under a dictatorship.
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The temporary return to daily rhythm and social order in Hong Kong does not mean that the movement is over, but may show Hong Kong’s pragmatic nature, and demonstrate that the protesters may have learned something from March’s Sunflower Student Movement in Taipei.
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The draconian sentence passed on Ilham Tohti, an academic and member of China’s Uyghur minority is a travesty of justice, PEN International said today, as it reiterated its call for his immediate and unconditional release.
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Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards on the continuing protests in Hong Kong.
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Austrian cartoonist Marain Kamensky on Hong Kong’s ongoing Umbrella Revolution.
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Beijing wants to turn Hong Kong into a little China and put it under the central government’s direct control. It broke its promise to allow citizens suffrage in Hong Kong’s first general election. The 2017 general election will be like chicken ribs: flavorless, but not bad enough to throw out.
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Tienchi Martin-Liao profiles dissident lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who was released from prison on August 7, 2014.
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“The censorship of music within both Tibet and China has been known to reach absurd heights.” In this article originally published by Free Muse on July 9, author Dechen Pemba highlights the dangers surrounding cultural expression as well as the beauty of the work created by musicians in Tibet.
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In this column, Tienchi Martin-Liao examines the phenomenon of “leftover women,” well-educated, successful women who are postponing marriage in China’s consumerist economy.
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