ICPC Member Jiao Guobiao Prevented from Attending PEN International Congress
On Friday, September 7, we received news from our Independent Chinese PEN Center colleagues that Dr. Jiao Guobiao, an ICPC member based in Beijing, was put under house arrest… More
Liu Xiaobo in Hong Kong
Liu Xiaobo was in Hong Kong on Saturday. He sat silent in a frame, on an empty chair, as hundreds of people bent down to him, a sign of… More
“The Silent Strength of Liu Xia” Makes Its Premier on Chinese Soil
"The Silent Strength of Liu Xia," curated by Guy Sorman and A. D. Coleman, comprises 26 photographs created by the Beijing photographer and poet, and wife of the imprisoned… More
The Silent Strength of Liu Xia
In March 2010, months after Liu Xiaobo was tried and sentenced to 11 years in prison, PEN’s Director of Freedom to Write and International Programs, Larry Siems, came back… More
PEN Abhors Free Expression Violations in Tibet
PEN American Center today expressed concern regarding the Chinese government’s crackdown on freedom of expression in Tibet after official media reported that authorities cut Internet and mobile phone service… More
China Advocacy: Subversive Poetry, Prison, and Exile
All across the world, we at PEN have noticed a trend against freedom of expression: the number of journalists targeted for persecution is on the rise while the number… More
PEN Protests Charges Against Zhu Yufu, Insisting “Poetry Is Not a Crime”
PEN American Center called on Chinese authorities to drop plans to prosecute poet and activist Zhu Yufu for “inciting subversion of state power” for one of his poems, saying… More
PEN Condemns Year-End Convictions of Two Chinese Writers
PEN American Center reacted angrily to the news that the Chinese government has again used the cover of the year-end holidays to try and sentence two writers to long… More
Disenchantment in the Cowshed
Ji Xianlin’s 1998 memoir recounts the painful and deeply disenchanting period he spent in the “cowshed,” an improvised prison on the Peking University campus for intellectuals labeled as “class… More
Memories of the Cowshed
We numbered more than a hundred, but not one of us dared breach the unwritten rule against holding our heads up, thereby inviting a well-aimed kick or heavy blow… More
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