Tag Archives: exile

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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2001： He Jixiang’s Book “Shanghai Rule of Law Dream” 沪上法治梦 Translated

Posted on 08/16/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I found He Jixiang’s book 2001 He Jixiang book translation “Shanghai Rule of Law Dreams” 沪上法治梦 fascinating and complementary to another ‘Rightist” memoir translated here — Blood Chronicles — the first chapter and table of contents are online at Kong … 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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Kong Lingping’s Maoist Labor Camp Memoir XXIII: A Decade Spent Between Life and Death

Posted on 04/15/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Old Photographs 【老照片】 is a very popular series of books published in China since the mid 1990s (now publishing volume No. 118!) filled with pictures and short accounts   of both family and public lived history from the late 19th century onwards … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir VI: Exiled to Ganluo County, Sichuan

Posted on 03/22/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Previous installment: Rightist Memoir V: Great Leap Forward Aftermath Section Four Exiled to Ganluo County in Southern Sichuan Province There were over one hundred prisoners in my train compartment. Many of them were people I had been together with before. Apart … Continue reading →

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Liao Yiwu: PRC Gov’t Consolidated Power Thanks to the Coronavirus

Posted on 02/20/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Thorstein Fuchs interviewed Liao Yiwu for the German press service RND in his article entitled “Dissident Liao Yiwu: So festigt die chinesische Regierung dank Corona ihre Macht” Liao Yiwu shared me this article in Chinese, I found the German original … Continue reading →

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耄耋老人高耀洁 Dr. Gao Yaojie’s 12 Years in US Exile

Posted on 12/22/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Dr. Gao Yaojie’s sister Gao Mingfeng’s account of Gao Yaojie’s 12 years in exile in the USA. Written to respond to some misinformed articles on Chinese social media apparently aimed at discrediting Dr. Gao. Continue reading →

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Liao Yiwu on Li Bifeng: He Fought for the Freedom of Others

Posted on 09/09/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Liao Yiwu on Li Bifeng: He Fought for the Freedom of Others [Note: Li Bifeng was released from prison and now lives in Mianyang, Sichuan Province. Li Bifeng’s story is the chapter entitled “The Poet” in Liao Yiwu’s book Bullets … Continue reading →

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Chinese Writer Liao Yiwu and “The Whole World is a Narrow Bridge”

Posted on 06/20/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

In an online passage “The Whole World is a Narrow Bridge”  from Liao Yiwu’s book of Tiananmen June 4th interviews Bullets and Opium (in Chinese online and published in German but not yet in English),   Liao Yiwu mentions how in … Continue reading →

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