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Established in 1967 by the Slovene PEN Centre, the International PEN Writers' Meeting was first set at Piran, then at the lakeside resort of BLED, making it the oldest annual regio...

Tibetan settlements in India have fostered strong relations with the government under the Dalai Lama’s teachings. Can they be a guide for Tibetan-Chinese relations? It was a stormy...

Now the world knows Li Chengpeng’s The Whole World Knows It’s a paradox: The suppressor is the biggest promoter of the suppressed. Without the Chinese government’s disturbed behavi...

What does the Southern Weekly incident mean for the future of free speech in China? The crisis surrounding the Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly has almost calmed down, but on Janu...

 Author : Tienchi Martin-Liao,  Tian Mu August 15, 2020The Corona virus that broke out in Wuhan at the beginning of the year has swept the world. More than half a year si...

The most famous maverick teacher in China. If you were to attend one of Yuan Tengfei’s history lectures at Beijing’s Haidian Teachers Training College, you might think that you’re ...

The true love story of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia. This is a picture that makes all of Liu Xia’s friends break into tears. Liu Xia is a sensitive poet and photographer. More than that,...

Success for one writer means punishment for the other. The Sichuan writer Li Bifeng is 48 years old. He has already spent one-fourth of his life in jail and now another 12 year ter...

The Chinese Communist Party has not yet blocked this website. Last week accessing the Internet and the rest of the telecommunication network in China was even more difficult than n...

The Friedenspreis winner Liao Yiwu For writers and publishers in Frankfurt on the Main, October is a busy season. One October, two years ago, the 52 year-old Chinese writer Liao Yi...