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12.02.22
Jiang Zemin, 1926-2022
Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin died on Wednesday at the age of 96, shortly after anger about the zero-COVID policy had boiled over into a wave of protest last weekend. Jiang took the country through the boom years of the 1990s, a time now...
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12.12.17The Traditional Chinese Dance Troupe China Doesn't Want You to See
Guardian
Shen Yun seems like a kitsch dance troupe. But Beijing sees it as the propaganda wing of the Falun Gong movement, and a threat to their rule – and hounds the dancers from city to city, trying to sabotage their shows.
Media
09.23.17
The German Edition of the Falun Gong-Affiliated ‘Epoch Times’ Aligns with the Far Right
On the eve of the German election Sunday, it’s no surprise that Russian state-funded media outlets are attacking German Chancellor Angela Merkel, sensationalizing migrant violence, and providing conciliatory coverage of far-right groups. Russia,...
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05.04.17China Compiles Its Own ‘Wikipedia,’ but Public Can’t Edit It
Seattle Times
It’ll be free. It’ll be uniquely Chinese. It’ll be an online encyclopedia to rival Wikipedia — but without the participation of the public. And don’t expect entries on “Tiananmen Square 1989” or “Falun Gong spiritual group” to come up in your...
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12.05.16Two Movies China Desperately Wants to Hide
Boston Globe
In China, prisoners of conscience are literally being butchered. These films take a look inside China's organ harvesting market.
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06.14.16Incendiary Memoir by Chinese Rights Lawyer Reaches Bookshelves Abroad
New York Times
An account of government critique, life in prison, and life under surveillance....
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11.27.15China Bars Anastasia Lin, Miss World Canada (and Rights Advocate)
New York Times
A Chinese who moved to Canada as a kid, the charismatic Lin is a practitioner of Falun Gong, the spiritual movement China calls an “evil cult.”
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02.06.14China Ends One Notorious Form Of Detention, But Keeps Others
NPR
Despite the closure of labor camps across China, groups targeted as political threats are still subject to incarceration in mental institutions and secret jails.
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12.21.12Beijing’s Doomsday Problem
from New York Review of Books
Over the past ten days, China has been riveted by accounts of what authorities say are its very own doomsday cult: the church of Almighty God, which has prophesized that the world will end today. Authorities have said the group staged illegal...
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01.27.03China’s Psychiatric Terror
from New York Review of Books
1.At its triennial congress in Yokohama last September, the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) overwhelmingly voted to send a delegation to China to investigate charges that dissidents were being imprisoned and maltreated as “political maniacs”...