Posts Tagged ‘ Charter 08 ’

A Brief Update on Liu Xiaobo

June 7, 2010
By C. Custer
A Brief Update on Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo has been moved from a Beijing holding prison, where he was kept for far too long, to a Liaoning prison. But why Liaoning?
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Liu Xiaobo, Drifting With the Tide

December 25, 2009
By C. Custer
Liu Xiaobo, Drifting With the Tide

Westerners worldwide will wake up tomorrow with gifts under their Christmas trees. Liu Xia will wake up tomorrow -- for her, December 26th -- with the knowledge that Christmas brought her an empty home for the next eleven years.
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Christmas Presents from the Chinese Government

December 24, 2009
By C. Custer
Christmas Presents from the Chinese Government

It’s the time of year for lights, trees, bells, and creepy columns about how Christmas presents excellent opportunities for proselytizing. Even in China they’re celebrating, and the while the Chinese government may have been a bit busy fending off American ‘conspiracies’ sabotaging global efforts to combat climate change and dooming small island nations in...
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Your Guide to Charter 08

January 11, 2009
By C. Custer

Charter ’08 is a manifesto signed by over three hundred prominent Chinese intellectuals that was released in December of 2008. It caused an immediate stir in the Western media, but didn’t seem to get much response from within China, at least initially. For the curious, we have collected links to relevant reading, news, and...
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