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Creativity and Constraint in Today’s China: Executive Summary
This report arises out of five years of research and targeted advocacy on behalf of writers and journalists who have been censored or persecuted for their work in the… More
From Secret to Shameless: The Chinese Communist Party’s Change in Tyranny Before and After the Olympics
The 2008 Beijing Olympics was a turning point for China’s tyrannical dictators just as the 1936 Berlin Olympics was for Hitler’s Germany. More
The “Stability Maintenance System” versus the Rule of Law
To maintain the privileges of vested interests, China has created a “stability maintenance system” that extends official control over society and represses civil rights. The main feature of this… More
Human Rights in Post-Olympic China
One thing the Chinese government and its leaders often say to outsiders is that “Chinese people mean what they say!”The “Chinese people” who are involuntarily represented by the Chinese… More
Human Rights in Post-Olympic China
Hosting one Olympics cannot change the judicial system, the news system, or nature of the regime. China’s democratic progress needs the continued growth of civil rights awareness, continued spreading… More
Never-Ending, Hidden Rules
I never celebrated my birthday when I was growing up, so I haven’t really given birthdays a lot of thought later in life. But last year, a group of… More
Tibet: After the Beijing Olympics
How can one express Tibet’s calamity and suffering in only a few words? Over the past several years, so many outstanding Tibetan people have suddenly and cruelly been taken… More
The Garbage Dump and Organized Crime
I passed up an invitation to attend the Nobel ceremony in Norway, heading home instead, because I’m accustomed, in a way, to being unfree: I’m a sewer rat, scurrying… More
Bizarre Freedom in a Divided Country
Over the past four years, China’s rulers have continued their harsh repression of free speech, arresting writers and dissidents, putting them under house arrest, harassing them, or making them… More
Why Does the Communist Party Leadership Still “Sing Red” in 2012?
In 2008, after the Sichuan earthquake and the Beijing Olympics, Politburo Standing Committee propaganda chief Li Changchun, CCP Central Propaganda Department Director Liu Yunshan, and Beijing Municipal Party Committee… More