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A Beautiful China – Six – The Mission of a Law Practitioner Xu Zhiyong, translated by Leo Timm, April 2, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a…

An Interview With Ai Weiwei, Part Three: China, the World, and Freedom of Expression China Change, July 6, 2023 Photo: Yaxue Cao (Continued from Part One: The Year 2008 and Part Two: Ruins. Rebars. Water Lilies.) China, the…

An Interview With Ai Weiwei, Part Two: Ruins. Rebars. Water Lilies. ‘Straight’. Photo: The New York Times. (Continued from Part One: The Year 2008) Ruins. Rebars. Water Lilies. YC: Many details have left a deep impression on me from…

An Interview With Ai Weiwei, Part One: The Year 2008 I interviewed Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei in May in Portugal. It was my first meeting with him, and as many Chinese activists do, I called him by his nickname “Aunt Ai”…

China’s Best Known Public Interest Litigator Awaits Trial Yaxue Cao, October 31, 2021 In China, Hao Jinsong (郝劲松) is very well-known as a public interest litigator who, for the better part of seven years between 2004 and 2010, sued…

In China, 24 Members of a Subculture Website Sentenced, the Main ‘Culprit’ Gets 14 Years in Prison China Change, February 3, 2020 Niu Tengyu (牛腾宇). Photo: RFA The arrests started a year and half ago during the summer break. From July to…

A Grassroots Dissident’s Brief Account of Prison Mistreatment Yuan Fengchu, November 18, 2020 Yuan Fengchu (袁奉初) is a dissident and activist from Chibi, Hubei (湖北赤壁). Because of his activities mostly in Guangdong during 2010-2013 as part…