Viewpoint
05.31.19
Taiwan and Hong Kong Have a Stake in Mainland China’s Political Development. They Should Act on It.
A range of observers and experts predicted that mainland China’s rapid economic modernization since the early 1990s would lead to social and political liberalization. Needless to say, that has not come to pass. The mainland’s economic reforms have...
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04.22.14China’s Growing Human Rights Movement Can Claim Many Accomplishments
Washington Post
Since Xi Jinping became president of China, there has been a sustained crackdown on advocates of democracy and civil society. A couple hundred Chinese citizens have been arrested and tried or await trial. Lawyer and activist Xu Zhiyong&...
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01.28.14Why is the Chinese Communist Party so Afraid of Legal Activist Xu Zhiyong?
Foreign Policy
Some fear that Xu and his fellow activists in the New Citizens Movement had formed an “anti-CCP clique”.
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01.28.14Jailed Dissident’s Wife: ‘I Don’t Want You to Give Up’
Wall Street Journal
A public letter from the wife of Xu Zhiyong shows the emotional burden imposed on the family members of jailed dissidents.
Features
01.26.14
For Freedom, Justice, and Love
from China Change
Following is legal activist Xu Zhiyong’s closing statement at the end of his trial in Beijing on January 22, 2014. According to his lawyer, Xu was only able to read “about ten minutes of it before the presiding judge stopped him, saying it was...
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01.21.14The Trial of the Chinese Dream
New Yorker
Xu Zhiyong tried to change China from the inside, but now he will be tried by the inside.
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11.11.13Activists Challenge Beijing by Going to Dinner
China Digital Times
On the last weekend of every month, government critics gather for unassuming meals in as many as 20 cities across the country to discuss issues from failures in the legal system to unequal access to education.