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Ai Weiwei: "Gangsters in the Government"

April 19, 2009
By C. Custer
Ai Weiwei: "Gangsters in the Government"

In modern China, no one can shut themselves in an ivory tower, there is nowhere that's a haven of peace. If, in life, you wish to get far away from this haze, aside from action, aside from seriously and earnestly fighting for change, creation, and construction, there's no other way.
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"Beautiful Life, Please Stay"

April 18, 2009
By C. Custer

Today I was flipping through the written memorial for the tenth anniversary...
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Not Remembering Hu Yaobang

April 17, 2009
By C. Custer

April 15th was the twentieth anniversary of Hu Yaobang’s death. Hu was a beloved leader, the General Secretary of the CCP for nearly a decade, and many people were thinking about his legacy on Wednesday. One group of people who wasn’t thinking about Hu Yaobang? The staff at the People’s Daily. Hu Yong noted...
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"On Driving Out Villains and Protecting the People"

April 16, 2009
By C. Custer

I went to visit Xiaobo's grave . A wind sprung up suddenly, and light pink flower petals -- I don't know if they were cherry or peach blossoms -- floated down one after another. I thought of Xiaobo's life, just like this flower: after blooming magnificently, it floats softly...
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In Memory of Hu Yaobang

April 15, 2009
By C. Custer
In Memory of Hu Yaobang

Twenty years ago today, April 15th, Hu Yaobang died, and in response, China exploded. Hu Yaobang was a CCP leader, and the General Secretary of the Party from 1980 until 1987, when he was forced out by socialist hard-liners for advocating bourgeois liberalization. He was forced to write a self-criticism, and when he died...
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On Dating Foreigners and Penis Size

April 13, 2009
By C. Custer

At Zhejiang University, there are many girls who, like me, are dating foreigners. I'm young and beautiful, witch excellent grades, and many people pursue me, but I'm dissatisfied with Chinese men. Please tell me, is that not conducting myself with dignity? Loving whom we choose, is this wrong?
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Update: Further Censorship of Ai Weiwei's Project

April 10, 2009
By C. Custer

Recently, we wrote a piece about how people attempting to collect names and information about students who died in the Wenchuan earthquake are meeting some resistance from police and officials. In the past few days, Ai Weiwei’s project has seen even more harassment. Yesterday, he posted a timeline of official messages from the last...
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Thoughts on the New Healthcare Proposal

April 9, 2009
By C. Custer

If you aren’t aware already, the Chinese government recently announced “a blueprint for health-care over the next decade”. The reforms are aimed at making healthcare more available and affordable. The ultimate goal: “By 2020, the world’s most populous country will have a basic health-care system that can provide “safe, effective, convenient and affordable” health...
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The Story of Yang Jia's Mother

April 2, 2009
By C. Custer

"I really didn’t know this was the last time I would ever see him. It never occurred to me. I told him I hadn’t been able to come see him before, and so came to see him now. I told him I believed he wouldn’t do anything to endanger the country or society. I...
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"The Nanjing Massacres and the Wenchuan Earthquake"

April 1, 2009
By C. Custer

“Abstraction is the most fanatical enemy of memory. It murders memory because it advocates distance and, moreover, aloofness. We must remind ourselves: what was massacred was not the number, it was a person, then another, then another…only in this way can we understand the meaning of ‘massacre’.”
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