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Ai Weiwei's Blog
In 2006, even though he could barely type, China's most famous artist started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, and autobiographical writings. He wrote about the Sichuan earthquake (and posted a list of the schoolchildren who died because of the government's \"tofu-dregs engineering\"), reminisced about Andy Warhol and the East Village art scene, described the irony of being investigated for \"fraud\" by the Ministry of Public Security, made a modest proposal for tax collection. Then, on June 1, 2009, Chinese authorities shut down the blog. This book offers a collection of Ai's notorious online writings translated into English--the most complete, public documentation of the original Chinese blog available in any language.The New York Times called Ai \"a figure of Warholian celebrity.\" He is a leading figure on the international art scene, a regular in museums and biennials, but in China he is a manifold and controversial presence: artist, architect, curator, social critic, justice-seeker. He was a consultant on the design of the famous \"Bird's Nest\" stadium but called for an Olympic boycott; he received a Chinese Contemporary Art \"lifetime achievement award\" in 2008 but was beaten by the police in connection with his \"citizen investigation\" of earthquake casualties in 2009. Ai Weiwei's Blog documents Ai's passion, his genius, his hubris, his righteous anger, and his vision for China.
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Sparks : China's underground historians and their battle for the future
\"A vital account of how some of China's most important writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to challenge the Chinese Communist Party on its most sacred ground, its monopoly on history\" -- publisher's description.
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Wild lily, prairie fire
Gregor Benton and Alan Hunter provide here a source book of documents of democratic dissent under Chinese Communism, most of them previously untranslated and difficult to find in the West. Ranging from eye-witness accounts of a massacre to theoretical critiques of Chinese Marxist thought, these essays are among the most powerful and important works of Chinese dissident literature written in this century. An extensive introduction maintains that the documents reveal a tradition of democratic thought and practice that traces its descent to the New Culture Movement of the 1910s and the founding generation of the Chinese Communist Party. Far from being a late twentieth-century import (along with capitalist economics) from Europe, Japan, and the United States, this tradition of dissent is deeply embedded in the experience of China's revolutionary movements.
The story of Chinese Communism has often been reduced to uniformity not only by political bureaucrats in China but by Western scholarship derived from official Chinese histories.Wild Lily, Prairie Firepaints a far richer picture. The book calls into question many of the usual beliefs about the relation between democracy and communism, at least in the Chinese case, which may now be seen to depart from the Soviet model in yet another crucial respect.
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Steel gate to freedom
Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while serving an eleven-year prison sentence-has helped shatter longstanding barriers to freedom of organization and expression in China. This biography, written by one of his closest friends, retraces Liu Xiaobo's inspiring life, from his childhood years to his current imprisonment.
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Humanity
Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our time. Ai Weiwei (b.1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists and a powerful documentary filmmaker. His work and art call attention to attacks on democracy and free speech, abuses of human rights, and human displacement--often on an epic, international scale.This collection of quotations demonstrates the range of Ai Weiwei's thinking on humanity and mass migration, issues that have occupied him for decades. Selected from articles, interviews, and conversations, Ai Weiwei's words speak to the profound urgency of the global refugee crisis, the resilience and vulnerability of the human condition, and the role of art in providing a voice for the voiceless.Select quotations from the book:\"This problem has such a long history, a human history. We are all refugees somehow, somewhere, and at some moment.\" \"Allowing borders to determine your thinking is incompatible with the modern era.\" \"Art is about aesthetics, about morals, about our beliefs in humanity. Without that there is simply no art.\" \"I don't care what all people think. My work belongs to the people who have no voice.\"
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You've Got Dissent! Chinese Dissident Use of the Internet and Beijing's Counter-Strategies
An analysis of the political use of the Internet by Chinese dissidents, both in the PRC and abroad, and the counterstrategies that Beijing has employed to prevent or minimize its impact. Although PRC officials have responded to the increased use of the Internet with predominantly traditional measures, they have been relatively successful. No credible challenges to the regime exist at present, despite the introduction of a massive modern telecommunications infrastructure. However, time may be on the side of the regime's opponents.
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Shrines to living men in the Ming political cosmos
\"Explores premortem shrine theory to illuminate Ming politics, including the Donglin Party's battle with eunuch dictator Wei Zhongxian and Gu Yanwu's theories. Argues that because elites often served their own interests, shrine rhetoric stressed the role of commoners, which allowed for the expansion of public opinion in late imperial China\"--Provided by publisher.
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Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman
The rural county of Poyang, lying in northern Jiangxi Province,
goes largely unmentioned in the annals of modern Chinese history.
Yet records from the Public Security Bureau archive hold a treasure
trove of data on the every day interactions between locals and the
law. Drawing on these largely overlooked resources, Tiger,
Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman follows four criminal cases that
together uniquely illuminate the dawning years of the People's
Republic.
Using a unique casefile approach, Brian DeMare recounts stories
of a Confucian scholar who found himself allied with bandits and
secret society members; a farmer who murdered a cadre; an evil
tyrant who exploited religious traditions to avoid prosecution; and
a merchant accused of a crime he did not commit. Each case is a
tremendous tale, complete with memorable characters, plot twists,
and drama. And while all depict the enemies of New China, each also
reveals details of village life during this most pivotal moment of
recent Chinese history. Together, the narratives bring rural regime
change to life, illustrating how the Chinese Communist Party
cemented its authority through mass political campaigns, careful
legal investigations, and sheer patience. Balancing storytelling
with historical inquiry, this book is at once a grassroots view of
rural China's legal system and its application to apparent
counterrevolutionaries, and a lesson in archival research
itself.
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