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A Beautiful China – Seven – Returning to China From a Year at Yale

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Joshua Rosenzweig, April 4, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Before this, he h [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Six – The Mission of a Law Practitioner

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Leo Timm, April 2, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Before this, he had served [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Five – Be True to the Law: Campaigning for a Seat as a People’s Congress Delegate

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Joshua Rosenzweig, March 10, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Before this, he [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Four – Working to Abolish the Custody and Repatriation System in the Wake of Sun Zhigang’s Death

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Leo Timm, February 26, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Before this, he had se [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Three – An Era of Change Is Upon Us

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Yaxue Cao, February 20, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Before this, he had s [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Two – A Life in Pursuit of One Dream

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Elizabeth Lindley, February 15, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Before this, [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – One – China’s Twentieth Century

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Joshua Rosenzweig, February 12, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Before this, [...] Keep reading »

Ilham, My Brother

Yaxue Cao, January 15, 2024 1. People often assume that I know Ilham Tohti in person. I don’t. When Ilham was arrested on January 15, 2014 from his home in Beijing, I, a relative newcomer to human rights living overseas, barely knew his name. I began to read about him. The first thing I read was his autobiographical essay My Ideals and the Career [...] Keep reading »

Eight Years as a Mother (2)

Wang Qiaoling, October 6, 2023 (Audio on browser) In the long year of 2018, there was a bright spot – that May, we found a school for my eight-year-old daughter. As early as 2016, my daughter was admitted to a bilingual school, which was the same school her brother attended for junior high. It also offered kindergarten and elementary. When the 70 [...] Keep reading »