In a speech at the National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference of 2013, author Feng Jicai criticized the politicized education in China in a bold and public manner.
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On November 21, journalist Gao Yu was put on trial in a closed door procedure that lasted only four hours. The absurd accusation that Mrs. Gao “leaked state secrets” reflects the contradictory propaganda measures of the CCP.
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Four decades after the end of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese government official makes a speech echoing the Red Guard’s ultra-leftist sentiment. Could “politics in command” be experiencing a renaissance?
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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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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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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently banned writer and poet Liao Yiwu, whose new books focuses on the chinese underclass, from attending international literary events in Sydney and New York.
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Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, who has been detained since April by the Chinese government, was allowed to see his wife for the first time, according to The New York Times and AP.
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