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The Many Aspects of CPC Dictatorship
Although the CPC regime of the post-Mao era is still a dictatorship, it is no longer fanatical, but rather, a rational dictatorship that has become increasingly adept at calculating… More
Changing the Regime by Changing Society
We have had over twenty years of reform, but due to the Chinese Communist Party’s selfish arrogation of political power and the scattering of civic forces, in the short… More
The Negative Effects of the Rise of Dictatorship on World Democratization
When the CPC boss Hu Jintao made his first official visit to the United States [in April 2006], he followed the old low-key pragmatic approach the CPC regime had… More
Further Questions about Child Slavery in China’s Kilns
It has been nearly two months since the shocking news of the “black kilns” run on slave labor in Shanxi came to light. But consider the storm of public… More
Newspaper Editor Murdered
International PEN protests in the strongest possible terms the murder of Jean Leonard Rugambage, deputy editor of the banned newspaper Umuvugizi, who was shot dead outside his home on… More
PEN Appeal: Jean Leonard Rugambage
June 29, 2010 President Paul Kagame Office of the President BP 15 Urugwiro Village Kigali, Rwanda Fax: +250 572431 Police Commissioner Emmanuel Gasana Commissioner General Rwandan National Police Kigali, Rwanda Fax: +250 58 66 02 Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga National… More
Nothing is Stable
Lispector had, in common with Borges in his fiction, an ability to write as though no one had ever written before, as though the work’s orginality and freshness arrived… More
June 18, 2010: Remembering José Saramago
PEN is saddened by the loss of José Saramago, Portuguese novelist, playwright, and journalist, who died on June 18, 2010, at the age of 87. In 1998, he received… More
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
In 1946, the young Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector was returning from Rio de Janeiro to Italy, where her husband was vice consul in Naples. She had traveled home as… More
The Hour of the Star
Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and… More