IN MEMORY OF ZHANG QING
China Change, January 18, 2022
This mini-documentary, filmed and edited by Ai Xiaoming and re-edited and subtitled by China Change, depicts Zhang Qing’s first visit to her husband Guo Feixiong in Meizhou Prison. It is also a snapshot of the life of Zhang Qing and her two children in 2007 and 2008 in Guangzhou.
Guo Feixiong (aka Yang Maodong) is a pioneer of the rights defense movement in China which began in the early 2000s. He was imprisoned from 2006 to 2011, and again, from 2013 to 2019, suffering brutal torture and inhumane treatment.
His wife Zhang Qing fled China with their two children to the United States in early 2009.
A free citizen, Guo Feixiong was illegally blocked from leaving China on January 28, 2021 at Shanghai Pudong Airport. He was attempting to visit his wife who, by then, was terminally ill. He was detained again in early December 2021 and on January 12, police in Guangdong issued a notice of his formal arrest and charged him with “inciting subversion of state power.”
It is part of China’s effort to further tighten control leading up to the 2022 Winter Olympics, which will open on February 4, 2022.
Zhang Qing died on January 10, 2022, in Germantown, Maryland.
纪念张青
这部由艾晓明拍摄和剪辑、由改变中国再次剪辑的短片，记录了2007年末和2008年初张青和孩子在广州的生活片段，尤其是第一次去梅州监狱探望丈夫郭飞雄。
郭飞雄（又名杨茂东）是中国维权运动先驱之一。他从2006年至2011年、2013年至2019年二度入狱，遭受了残暴的酷刑和非人对待。
张青带着两个孩子，于2009年初逃离中国避难。
2021年1月28日，郭飞雄前往美国探望患癌的妻子，在上海浦东机场被中国当局非法阻拦出境。
2021年12月5日，郭飞雄失踪。2022年1月12日，中国广州市公安局向郭飞雄的家人发出逮捕通知书，指控他“涉嫌煽动颠覆国家政权”。
在2月4日冬季奥运会召开前，中国当局在对它视作“威胁”的人进行大肆抓捕。
张青于2022年1月10日病逝于美国马里兰州。
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