Dissident Chinese writer Guo Feixiong was released from prison after serving a five-year-sentence. Guo Feixiong is a novelist and essayist, independent publisher, and rural civil rights advisor and activist.
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Tsering Woeser comments on the popular but distorted perception of Tibet as a place of mystery and mysticism, a distortion, that according to Woeser, is not only made accidentally by popular culture but even deliberately through Chinese scholarship – compounded with the explicit political propaganda.
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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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Nepali journalist Deepak Adhikari profiles a family of Bhutanese immigrants who relocated to Pittsburgh in 2008 from a refugee camp in Nepal where they had been living for eighteen years.
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The documentary Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour, recorded before Ai’s arrest, provides cultural and political context to his provocative work, as well as a glimpse into the artist’s life.
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Hu Jia, a political activist imprisoned since 2008, was released by Chinese authorities on June 26, 2011. He reunited with his wife, Zeng Jinyan, a well-known activist blogger.
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