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1999: Rights Activist Liu Nianchun Interview “For the Rights of Chinese Workers”

Posted on 09/15/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Liu Nianchun paid for his years of democracy activism in China with six years of imprisonment. He and his family were allowed to leave China on his ‘medical parole’ in December 1998. Liu Nianchun lives in New York City. He … Continue reading →

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2022: Yu Jie on Gao Ertai, Gao Ertai’s ‘Letter without an Address’ to His Deceased Daughter

Posted on 08/19/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Ian Johnson’s August 2024 New Yorker interview with Gao Ertai — A Chinese Memoirist’s Exile in Las Vegas inspired me to look him up. I found Yu Jie’s Radio Free Asia 2022 article about Gao Ertai — Gao Ertai: Living … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir XLII: Late 80s Democracy Movement to June Fourth and Aftermath

Posted on 07/03/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Find table of contents chapter links at Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir I: “Blood Chronicle” By Long-time Prisoner of Mao Zedong The full Chinese text can be downloaded from bannedbook.org  Chapter 8 Late 80s Protests to June Fourth and Aftermath Deng Xiaoping’s reform and … Continue reading →

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2013：Ai Xiaoming — Uncensored Interview with Gan Cui on Martyred Poet Lin Zhao, including Deleted Xinjiang Labor Camp Experiences of Gan Cui

Posted on 05/13/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

After I posted my translation of Ai Xiaoming‘s long 2013 interview with Gan Cui 2013 Ai Xiaoming: Martyred Poet Lin Zhao and Gan Cui, Ai Xiaoming saw it and her editor Yi Mei contacted me to pass along the uncensored version … Continue reading →

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2013 Ai Xiaoming: Martyred Poet Lin Zhao and Gan Cui

Posted on 04/30/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Below I have translated a love story — the story of martyred poet Lin Zhao and two-decades-long ‘prisoner of Mao’ Gan Cui written by Ai Xiaoming on the basis of her 2013 interview with Gan Cui. Retired Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) … Continue reading →

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2024: VOA — PRC Cyber Police Identifying Followers of Overseas Critic

Posted on 02/27/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Reading material on the Internet is increasingly being criminalized. Once spreading information like Ruan Xiaohuan (2023: PRC Freedom of Information Blogger Ruan Xiaohuan Persecuted) deemed false, harmful or unhealthy could get you into trouble. Simply reading it not so much. That … Continue reading →

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2024 VOA: Economist Mao Yushi in Vancouver, BC

Posted on 01/21/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese economist Mao Yushi and his wife have moved permanently to their daughter’s home in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Chinese economist Mao Yushi of the banned independent economic thinktank Unirule recently wrote a message for Chinese youth. I am very old … Continue reading →

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2023 PSB to HK Activist: Propaganda Trip then Return Passport

Posted on 12/03/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow Ting, in a letter circulating on Twitter, described how she got out of Hong Kong to study in Canada. The police demanded that she make a propaganda trip to the Mainland, write them a letter … Continue reading →

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2019 Fmr PLA General Liu Yazhou: What is Really Scary about the United States?

Posted on 04/26/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Former PRC General Liu Yazhou faces a death sentence now that he has been handed over to PRC state and Communist Party officials for prosecution on alleged corruption charges. Some call him pro-American. I find pro-American and anti-American to be … Continue reading →

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2022: Illegal PRC ‘Police Stations’ in Netherlands Intimidate Chinese Exiles

Posted on 10/25/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Via Google Translate, a press report from the Netherlands about Chinese ‘underground’ police stations. These have been reported in several other countries as well. A few years ago a Chinese language newspaper in the United States reported that Chinese security … Continue reading →

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