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A loss and a win for an artist in isolation. One evening some of Liu Xia’s friends snuck into her yard and, seeing her silhouette in the window, took her picture from below. It’s o...

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 of Tienchi Martin-Liao

Three young Chinese Red Guards from the Cultural Revolution. Photo: Villa Giulia. Creative Commons

left: Essayist Ye Du. Right: One of the three cameras that monitor Ye Du’s apartment. Photos from ChinesePen.org.

A Post Office in Shanghai. Photo by SimonQ, Creative Commons.

Dark Road by Ma Jian. Image courtesy of Tienchi Martin-Liao

by Tienchi Martin-Liao “All the world’s a stage”– how true is Shakespeare with this phrase. The best actors on the stage are always politicians. At the moment, the champion & c...