Tienchi Martin-Liao was the columnist of the Pittsburg literature online magazine SAMPSONIA WAY. She wrote for the FEARLESS INK column – Blind Chess from May 2012 till July 2018. The articles are reposted here, some of them are updated if necessary. Most of the topics and contents are still up to date, because in China the suppression on the intellectuals and dissidents is more severe then ever. There is no freedom of expression, no freedom of press, and people go to jail when they write things that offend the authority.
Success for one writer means punishment for the other. The Sichuan writer Li Bifeng is 48 ...
The Chinese Communist Party has not yet blocked this website. Last week accessing the Inte...
The Friedenspreis winner Liao Yiwu For writers and publishers in Frankfurt on the Main, Oc...
What Mo Yan’s award means to China Li Changchun, chief propagandist for the CCP, congratul...
Crime and Punishment, Without the Crime Feng Zhenghu’s story is similar to the plot of Ste...
A loss and a win for an artist in isolation. One evening some of Liu Xia’s friends snuck i...
Education protest in Hong Kong. Photo from video by LLSYI.
Wang Xiaoning and Yu Ling in the early 1970s. Photo: courtesy of Tienchi Martin-Liao.
Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser tells the stories of self-immolated monks. Photo: courtesy o...
Three young Chinese Red Guards from the Cultural Revolution. Photo: Villa Giulia. Creative...