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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...

What Mo Yan’s award means to China Li Changchun, chief propagandist for the CCP, congratulated this year’s Nobel laureate in Literature, Mo Yan, with high spirits: “(This award) re...

Crime and Punishment, Without the Crime Feng Zhenghu’s story is similar to the plot of Steven Spielberg’s 2004 film The Terminal. In the movie, Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) is left ...

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.