As random acts of violence grip the country, netizens connect the events to an underclass venting rage on itself with antecedents in literary tradition.
Independent bookstores under pressure; Taiwanese books shut out
Independent bookstores are in the crosshairs of the CCP’s crackdown on free expression. One bookseller likens his situation to “smuggling drugs instead of selling books.”
“Confessions of a Collegiate ‘Zhengzhou-to-Kaifeng Night-Cyclist’”
A first-person account by one student who joined a night ride to Kaifeng, its origins, and the descent of a fun-filled experience into authoritarian control.
Young Chinese flock to ‘academic pubs’ as space for free expression shrinks
Happy-hour huddles give Chinese students “a place without authority…to speak their mind.”
JF Books returns
The rise and fall of an independent bookstore and the fate of civil society in China.
China’s pension crisis sparks public outrage
With China set to revise its retirement age closer to western norms for the first time in 60 years, heated public reaction returns to deeper issues including unlimited state power.
China detains prominent artist, citizen journalist as crackdown on dissent escalates
When domestic challenges grow more serious, the dissident community pays the price, human rights advocates say.
Wind’s voice, freedom’s choice
A landmark Chinese bookstore shuttered in Shanghai six years ago has found another life in Washington, D.C.
Li Rui’s diary and Tiananmen Square
A rare insider account of China’s corridors of power and a unique and brave journey through the history of modern China.
China releases tortured rights lawyer Chang Weiping
Lawyer is sent back to his place of household registration after serving 3 1/2 years for ‘subversion.’
Book launch: Deng Xiaoping in 1989 (revised edition)
This Friday, June 28, New York publisher Bouden House will launch its new edition of Deng Xiaoping in 1989 by the iconic Chinese investigative reporter, Dai Qing.
Bookstores become sites of subtle protest against Xi Jinping
The placement of books published by President Xi Jinping alongside titles that seem to be making a political point continue to titillate.
As China’s internet disappears, ‘We lose parts of our collective memory’
The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased.
June Fourth 2024 — Dai Qing, a former person who refused to be silenced
Reporter, novelist and China’s first post-Mao historical investigative journalist, Dai Qing continues her quest to reveal China to itself.
‘China’s people are increasingly aware of human rights’
The growing vulnerability of Xi Jinping’s strongman rule.
Patricia Adams
Dai Qing
Fan Xiao
Lawrence Solomon
Mu Lan
Probe International
Lisa Peryman
Probe Media
Other News Sources
Probe International 