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People of the Week: The Feminist Five
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of public intellectuals, cartoonists, human rights activists, and other people pushing for change in China. The...
View ArticleFour Views on Activism in China
A series of recent posts at the University of Nottingham’s China Policy Institute Blog describes various aspects of Chinese activism and official responses. Cornell University PhD candidate Manfred...
View ArticleLawyer: “The Five Women Are Being Held Illegally”
The monthlong detention of five women activists in Beijing is illegal as authorities have not followed due process in filing charges against or releasing them after 30 days, according to one of their...
View ArticleChina Frees Five Women Activists on Bail After Outcry [Updated]
Chinese authorities have released the five women’s rights activists who had been in detention for over a month, becoming the first incident in recent Chinese history where a collectively detained group...
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CDT Bookshelf: Eric Fish on China’s Millennials
Eric Fish arrived in China in 2007 to teach and went on to write for the Beijing-based Economic Observer. He is now a writer at the Asia Society in New York. His first book, “China’s Millennials: The...
View ArticleTwo Former Yirenping Members Detained
Reuters reports that two former directors of public health and social justice NGO Yirenping’s Zhengzhou branch have been detained by police. These two detentions have sparked worry that an ongoing...
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Activity of the Week: Getting Rice-Drunk
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
View ArticleMiss World Canada Says China Blocking Visa
Anastasia Lin, the 25-year-old Chinese-Canadian woman who won the 2015 Miss World Canada title, says that Chinese authorities are refusing to provide her with the invitation letter needed apply for a...
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Activity of the Week: Drink Tea
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
View ArticleWomen’s Day and the Fight for Gender Equality in China
International Women’s Day was first celebrated by the Socialist Party of America and later in Europe to call for women’s equal rights, suffrage, and right to strike, but is now celebrated in China by...
View ArticleYoung Feminist Activists Find Solidarity Abroad
Alec Ash, author of “Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China,” writes in Vox that despite the recent repression of civil society and dissent in China, he finds cause for hope among China’s younger...
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Badiucao Launches Global Art for Liu Xiaobo Campaign
On July 12, as Liu Xiaobo was in his final hours of life and Chinese authorities had made clear they wouldn’t allow the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate to go abroad for medical treatment, CDT...
View ArticleThe Chilling Effect of Lee Ming-che’s Trial
Last month, Taiwanese activist and NGO worker Lee Ming-che was tried on charges of subversion after being detained in March while entering China. The trial, which Lee’s wife called a “stage drama,”...
View ArticleTranslation: Speaking of Zhang Yunfan…
Xi Jinping’s ongoing crackdown on civil society and parallel drive to reinforce ideological orthodoxy has affected rights lawyers and activists, academics, and journalists, among others. While the vast...
View ArticleTranslation: Follow-up to Sexual Harassment Petition
Efforts to activate a Chinese #MeToo movement reportedly met much official and cultural resistance, with censors apparently restricting usage of the #我也是# hashtag online, cultural barriers preventing...
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People of the Week: The Feminist Five
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of public intellectuals, cartoonists, human rights activists, and other people pushing for change in China. The...
View ArticleLawyer: “The Five Women Are Being Held Illegally”
The monthlong detention of five women activists in Beijing is illegal as authorities have not followed due process in filing charges against or releasing them after 30 days, according to one of their...
View ArticleChina Frees Five Women Activists on Bail After Outcry [Updated]
Chinese authorities have released the five women’s rights activists who had been in detention for over a month, becoming the first incident in recent Chinese history where a collectively detained group...
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CDT Bookshelf: Eric Fish on China’s Millennials
Eric Fish arrived in China in 2007 to teach and went on to write for the Beijing-based Economic Observer. He is now a writer at the Asia Society in New York. His first book, “China’s Millennials: The...
View ArticleTwo Former Yirenping Members Detained
Reuters reports that two former directors of public health and social justice NGO Yirenping’s Zhengzhou branch have been detained by police. These two detentions have sparked worry that an ongoing...
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