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Tag Archives: prison
2014: (25) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter 25 “Guilt by Association”
Liu Nianchun’s novel 《劫在中南海》chapters translated thus far on this blog are listed at 2014: (1-2) Liu Nianchun’s Novel 《劫在中南海》”The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapters 1 – 2 The previous chapter: 2014: (24) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter 24 “Exile” The next … Continue reading
Posted in Governance, History 历史, Ideology 思想, Literature 文学
Tagged books, China, Chinese, Communist Party, 监狱, dictatorship, dictatorship of the proletariat, fiction, guilt by association, history, labor camp, laogai, laojiao, Party, police, PRC, prison, re-education through labor, recruitment, red, reform through labor, Tuanhe, Youth, 共产党, 劳动所, 劳改, 劳教, 政治学习, 专政, 中国
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2014: (19) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter 19 “All in the Same Rut”
Liu Nianchun’s novel 《劫在中南海》chapters translated thus far on this blog are listed at 2014: (1-2) Liu Nianchun’s Novel 《劫在中南海》”The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapters 1 – 2 The previous chapter: 2014: (18) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter 18 “A Thousand Li … Continue reading
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Tagged Chairman Mao, China, Communism, Cultural Revolution, 监狱, 監獄, deng xiaoping, executions, 革命委員會, 魏京生, Gang of Four, guards, history, Hu Yaobang, Jiang QIng, Liu Shaoqi, Mao Zedong, Peng Zhen, politics, PRC, prison, revolutionary committee, Wei Jingsheng, Yuerong, Zhang Yufeng, Zhongnanhai, Zhou Enlai, 共产党, 劉少奇, 处决, 彭真, 文革, 死刑, 毛主席, 毛澤東, 江青, 中国
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2005: PLA General Liu Yazhou: On America
Twenty years ago the now-imprisoned PLA General Liu Yazhou wrote this essay on US-China long term interests, possible conflicts between the two states and how conflict might be avoided. An intriguing 2005 perspective on the United States and its role … Continue reading
Posted in Bilateral Relations, Military 军事, National Security 安全
Tagged China, Communist Party, 解放軍, General Liu Yazhou, history, imprisoned, Liu Yazhou, military, PLA, politics, PRC, prison, US-China, Xi Jinping, 军事, 劉亞洲, 國家化, 中国
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2025: Imprisoned General Liu Yazhou and Transforming the PLA from a Party Army to a National Army
An amusing trivia question might be which countries do not have a national army? The answer might well by China and Costa Rica. China, like its sometime role model, the Soviet Union, has a party army with command doubled with … Continue reading
Posted in Military 军事, Politics 政治
Tagged China, Communist Party, 解放軍, General Liu Yazhou, history, Liu Yazhou, PLA, politics, prison, Xi Jinping, 劉亞洲, 國家化, 中国
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2025: Chen Yunfei — “China’s Prison Labor System Must Be Urgently Reformed”
Chen Yunfei (August 13, 1967 – ) is a human rights activist from Sichuan Province. He graduated from Beijing Agricultural University in the early 1990s and was a participant in the 1989 pro-democracy movement. On the 18th anniversary of the … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption 腐败, Famous Chinese Political Court Cases 中国政治名案, Society 社会
Tagged Chen Yunfei, corruption, 监狱, 陈云飞, human rights, politics, PRC, prison, prison labor, reform, release, rights, Sichuan, 中国
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2001: Shao Yanxiang Reviews He Jixiang’s “Shanghai Rule of Law Dream”
Shanghai Rule of Law Dream. (2001) Beijing Shiyue Wenyi Publishing House By Shao Yanxiang “Shanghai Rule of Law Dream” 《沪上法治梦》is a memoir by Mr. He Jixiang 何济翔 , a veteran of Shanghai’s courts, and is part of the “Centennial Life” … Continue reading
Posted in Law 法律, Literature 文学, Politics 政治
Tagged book review, China, Communist Party, Hundred Flowers, Judge, law, legal code, Mao Zedong, poem, poetry, PRC, prison, rightist, rule of law, 共产党, 劳教, 法治
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Rightist Memoir XLII: Late 80s Democracy Movement to June Fourth and Aftermath
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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Tagged Beijing, censorship, China, Chinese, Chongqing, Communist Party, democracy movement, Deng Xiaping, dissident, history, Hu Yaobang, June 4, June 4th, Kong Lingping, Li Peng, Mao Zedong, martyr, member, news, politics, PRC, prison, repression, resignation, rightist, slaughter, square, Tiananmen, Wang Dan, Xi Jinping, Xi Zhongxun, Zhao Ziyang, 六四, 共产党, 习近平, 习仲勋
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2020: My Sister Lin Zhao II
Lin Zhao said, “My father once told me that using the innocence and enthusiasm of young people for political purposes is the cruelest thing. Politics is deception, full of scheming. I never believed it in the past, but when I … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-Rightist, Beijing, big character poster, China, Chinese, Communist Party, 记者, Great Leap Forward, history, It's Time, journalism, Lin Zhao, Lushan Conference, medicine, Peking University, Peng Dehuai, physician, politics, PRC, prison, psychiatry, Shanghai, Shen Zeyi, Sparks, student, Su Zonghua, Zhang Yuanxun, 共产党, 北大, 北京大学, 林昭, 中国
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