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“Values and Strategic Narratives in International Human Rights”
“Either/or ways of framing policy choices limit our strategic imagination. . . . We need to move away from traditional binary computing thinking and into the quantum space where both particle and wave can exist simultaneously and the possibilities are infinite.” —Sharon Hom, HRIC Executive Director
August 11, 2016
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The Hellish Scene Behind Guo Feixiong’s Wishes
[Translation by Human Rights in China] Guo Feixiong will soon be transferred to a prison again. His sister, after visiting him, conveyed his wishes: “I demand that in prison, [I] will have books to read, won’t have to kneel down, won’t be forced to perform labor, and won’t be beaten.” He also said...
February 4, 2016
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Gao Zhisheng
Open Letter by Octogenarian Urging CPC to Register
Dear Mr. Xi Jinping: Hello! I am an old woman from Beijing, more than 80 years old. My name is Wang Xiuying. On the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party China (CPC), I would like to discuss the issue of the CPC’s legitimacy. As everyone knows, the CPC was established under the...
June 23, 2016
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On the 8th Anniversary of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
How Long Do The Children Still Have to Wait? Citizen Proposal Concerning the Investigation into the Sichuan Earthquake School Disaster Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China; Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council; Zhang Dejiang, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National...
June 9, 2016
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Tan Zuoren
A Partial Hong Kong Diary
August 29, 2015 – New Haven, CT It is difficult to think of a more emotionally charged issue to address than Hong Kong’s relationship to China and the rise of Localism, a movement that opposes mainland Chinese influence in Hong Kong. It is particularly difficult to find a good place to begin...
December 21, 2015
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China's National Security Law: The Danger of an All-Encompassing National Security Framework
[Translation by Human Rights in China] See Chinese original . The concept of China's state security has achieved unprecedented political heights with the National Security Law recently passed by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the suite of laws that have already been...
August 31, 2015
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Six Major Characteristics of Terrorism in China with Special Characteristics
On July 23, 2014, China News Service in New York reported that the data released that day by the world famous risk assessment company, Maplecroft, showed that the number of civilian deaths worldwide attributed to acts of terrorism was rising steeply. Over the preceding year, more than 1.8 million...
August 18, 2015
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Hu Ping
The Day Is Near – Poem from One Born After 1980
The day is near My heart fills with fear Life is bland, without sound Even wails, have all been shut out Thick walls, no ears listening The day is near I do not know how to commemorate Whom I should hate, whom I should cry for, and whose spirits I should beckon Countless hands in history struggle...
August 18, 2015
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The Four Books – A Book Review by Jonathan Mirsky
Overseen by Deng Xiaoping in 1981, the official line of the Communist Party of China remains: Mao’s greatest error was the Cultural Revolution, from 1966-1976. [1] Awful though that decade was, far, far worse was the great famine of 1958-1961—if not longer—in which anywhere from 25 to 50 million...
August 18, 2015
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A Contested History (Podcast-Mandarin)
(Listen to the podcast) HRIC Introduction In this segment of the HRIC podcast series, “A Contested History,” a mainlander working in Hong Kong talks about the significance of the annual June 4th candlelight vigil held in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park that commemorates the victims of the military...
August 17, 2015
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