Chinese civil rights lawyer Teng Biao discusses his work and his own journey to activism and advocacy.
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The full transcript of an interview with “barefoot lawyer” Chen Guangcheng, a prominent Chinese political activist who fought against the country’s one-child policy.
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An interview with “barefoot lawyer” Chen Guangcheng, a prominent Chinese political activist who fought against the country’s one-child policy.
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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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In the wake of a recent wave of arrests aimed to smother free speech in China, Tienchi Martin-Liao examines the laws most frequently used to charge dissidents and influential social media voices, and how they’ve been modified to include new offenses.
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Celebrated exiled poet Liao Yiwu performs his poem, “Massacre,” forcing open the memory and aftermath of the Tiananmen Square killings of 1989. He follows this reading with a musical performance with his singing bowls.
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