Laohu Miao: "Song of a Migrant Worker Asking for Pay"

April 21, 2009
By Chris Hearne

Zhang Xinqi, from Henan province, was a worker on the Olympic Forest Park. On July 2nd, 2008 I met...
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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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