In this interview, Yu Kwang-chung talks about the tradition of Chinese literature, immortality, the joys and complications of sourcing multiple languages, and the contradiction of being known as a “patriotic” poet in China.
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Ran Yunfei, Chinese blogger, author, and outspoken free speech advocate, was released Tuesday from a detention center in the city of Dujiangyan where he was held for almost six months.
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Slide show featuring cartoons from Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaq, who recently launched his latest collection of controversial political cartoons, Even My Pen Has a Stand. It may join six of his previous collections on the country’s banned book list.
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M. F. Hussain, the 95-year-old exiled artist also known as “India’s Picasso,” died of a heart attack in a London hospital on June 9. In this video Hussain answer questions about his life, work, and exile.
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Clips from award-winning movies by Iranian filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, who submitted their entries secretly to the 2011 Cannes International Film Festival because they’re banned from making movies.
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Q&A with writer and activist Taslima Nasrin, who has lived in exile since the early ’90s. Here, she speaks about women’s rights in relation to Islamic law. Nasrin has faced two fatwas in India and three in her home country, Bangladesh
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