Leap the Firewall
With the release of PEN International's China Report, PEN American Center is calling on its supporters and followers to help spread the word via social media. More
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
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
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
Murong Xuecun on China’s ‘Crappy Freedom’
In this excerpt, the Beijing-based novelist discusses the banality of Chinese censorship. 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
Writers press China on media freedom
Some 200 leading writers appealed Friday to China to respect freedom of expression and free jailed authors, describing the country's strict censorship as a stain on a vibrant culture. More
Report on creativity and constraint in China
On World Press Freedom Day, PEN International launched The PEN Report: Creativity and Constraint in Today's China. The culmination of five years of collaborative research among PEN members inside… 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
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