Who Are We?
Our work started in the fall of 2011, first at seeingredinchina.com (now offline) and then continued at ChinaChange.org until the present. As the founding editor based in Washington, DC, Yaxue Cao works with a team of writers, translators and researchers to produce original content. In this VOA interview, she relates the journey of China Change (in Chinese).
What Does China Change Do?
We translate and write about Chinese citizens’ struggle for basic rights, rule of law, and civil society, and bring this often-suppressed information to a global audience. We believe that a proper grasp of China’s changing political landscape and the nature of the communist rule is critical for the peace and security of the world.
Why Do You Do This?
Like the Chinese we translate and report on, we too feel it is a moral imperative to help China move towards being a democracy that respects universal values. We want the world to learn about, and understand, the ideas, work and sacrifices of these Chinese people, and what the authoritarian regime does to suppress dissent. In delivering this information, we wish to offer the world an indispensable public service.
What Has the Website Accomplished?
Despite its grassroots background, the website has become a major source in English for information about human rights, rule of law, and civil society in China. On major events such as the crackdown on the New Citizens’ Movement and the recent arrest of rights lawyers, we provide comprehensive information. The website has been widely complimented. Our posts have been cited or hyperlinked by numerous major media outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Time, The Guardian, and The Telegraph, to name a few. China Change has also been cited in Congressional reports.
Above all, China Change has been recognized as a singular website bringing to the world the unmediated voice of those on the forefront of the struggle for a free and just China, and telling their stories. A free and just China is not only important to China and its people; it’s vital to peace on earth.
Why Do We Need Your Help?
In the first two years, the website relied solely on a few people volunteering their time and talent. Since mid-2013, we have received a modest grant that has kept the work going. As the website has matured and its activities become more involved, it has come to require additional financial support to regularly produce high quality content. Just as the website is an enterprise of civic dedication, we particularly desire support from the public and take pride in being funded by ordinary citizens like you.
China Change is a U.S. 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization (EIN 46-2665527), and your donation is tax-deductible.
How Your Donation Will Be Spent?
Your support will fund the translation, research, and writing of China Change, and occasionally necessary travel expenses.
Also Consider Giving to Humanitarian China
Although unaffiliated, China Change and Humanitarian China (also a 501(c)(3)) are sister organizations who share the same vision and whose work complements each other: Co-founded by Tiananmen student leader Zhou Fengsuo and based in the Bay Area, California, Humanitarian China has been providing financial support to political prisoners, their family members, and civil society activists in China since 2007. In the past year or so it has helped over 100 individuals or families, and organized three donation drives to help Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti, independent journalist Gao Yu, and more recently human rights lawyers. Please visit its home page and donation page.
我們是什麼人？
我們的工作開始於2011年秋天。初始在seeingredinchina.com (已經下線), 後來轉移至目前的網站。網站由曹雅學女士主編，參與工作的人包括翻譯員和研究員。在這個美國之音中文訪談中，曹雅學談了網站創辦的歷程。
網站做什麼？
我們翻譯和報導中國公民為獲得基本自由、權利、法治和公民社會所做的艱難努力，將這些常常受到壓制的信息帶給世界，幫助世界更好地了解中國政治的性質與景觀。我们认为，要维护世界和平与安全，不可不了解当今中国政治的性质。
我們為何從事這項工作？
如同我們所翻譯和報導的那些中國人一樣，我們也感到在中國實現民主和普世價值是一項道德律令和責任。我們希望世界了解他們的理念、努力和付出，了解中國政府打壓異見的所作所為；對於世界，我們致力於提供一個重要的公共服務。
網站有何成就？
網站儘管來自草根公民背景，但已逐漸成為有關中國人權、法治與公民社會的主要英語信息來源之一。在重大事件上，如對新公民運動的鎮壓以及最近對維權律師的抓捕，網站提供了獨特而翔實的翻譯和報導。網站的工作受到了廣泛讚譽。我們的文章曾被許多媒體引用或鏈接，包括《 紐約時報》、《華盛頓郵報》、《時代》周刊、《衛報》、《電訊報》（僅舉幾例）以及美國國會報告。
網站為什麼需要您的幫助？
網站在最初創立和成形的兩年，完全依靠編輯和幾個義工的自願付出。過去兩年我們在一個 grant 支持下維持工作。但是隨著網站的成熟和擴大，它需要更多的資助來生產高質量和相對充分的內容。正如這個網站是公民義務與努力的體現，我們尤其希望從普通公民中汲取支持，並深深以此為豪。
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我們如何使用您的捐助？
您的捐助將用於支付翻譯、研究、寫作以及一些必要的旅行。
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