The NYRB China Archive
12.21.09The Trial of Liu Xiaobo: A Citizens’ Manifesto and a Chinese Crackdown
from New York Review of Books
One year ago, the Chinese literary critic and political commentator Liu Xiaobo was taken away from his home in Beijing by the Chinese police, who held him without charge for six months, then placed him under formal arrest for six more months, on the...
The NYRB China Archive
01.15.09China’s Charter 08
from New York Review of Books
The document below, signed by more than two thousand Chinese citizens, was conceived and written in conscious admiration of the founding of Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia, where, in January 1977, more than two hundred Czech and Slovak intellectuals...