On November 15, the Chinese Communist Party finally abolished its notorious system of labor camps called laojiao (reeducation through labor). While Chinese human rights activists welcome the news, they also called for the banning of ‘black jails and other rogue camouflaged measures of laojiao.’
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The widely criticized suspension last week of Bloomberg New’s Hong Kong-based journalist Michael Forsythe sparks discussion of alleged censorship of reporters and articles in China. In this video, James Fallows, Demetri Sevastopulo and discuss the issue with CNN’s Eric Deggans.
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In China, according to Tienchi Martin-Liao, journalists face two major problems: censorship from officials who issue instructions on how and whether or not to report a story, and corruption in the form of “red envelopes” (bribes), which have become many journalists’ main source of income.
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“I believe that 1942 is the closest that you can get to an Oscar-level film for China because of the censorship.” In this interview, The Hollywood Reporter‘s Scott Feinberg had a chance to ask the celebrated writer/director Feng Xiaogang about censorship in China, as well as his life and career.
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On the rise and fall (for now) of the popular Butcher Shop, an innovative philanthropic e-commerce project that provides financial aid to families of political prisoners. The venture is organized by Rice-Delivery-Party, a writer/activist collective led by the author and blogger Ye Fu.
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A new report — “The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How Chinese Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets around the World” — finds that Chinese officials have directly impeded independent reporting by media based abroad.
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Independent Chinese PEN Center president Tienchi Martin-Liao discusses the contrasting treatment received by imprisoned Chinese dissidents and shares the personal accounts of Nobel Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo, human rights activist and lawyer Teng Biao, and the writer and blogger Ran Yunfei.
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Independent Chinese PEN Center president Tienchi Martin-Liao discusses the importance of the Tiananmen Square Massacre twenty-four years later, why China should not wait for a savior, and her work with imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo.
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Tienchi Martin-Liao chronicles the events surrounding the detention of 16-year-old Chinese netizen Yang Hui, who faces a possible charge of “inciting trouble” under a newly amended law aimed at stifling free speech on the internet.
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The week’s top news on freedom of expression, journalists in danger, artists in exile, and banned literature. Featured this week: freedom of religion in North Korea, how internet actually works in China, German-Bulgarian writer and NSA critic Ilija Trojanov denied entry into US.
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Cuban Newrrative: An Anthology
Sampsonia Way presents 16 short stories from trendsetting writers of Cuban literature. The anthology is illustrated with work by El Sexto and Luis Trápaga. READ
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