Reporting & Opinion
12.23.14

China in 2014 Through the Eyes of a Human Rights Advocate

Yaxue Cao
from China Change

This time last year, volunteers and I were busy writing and translating articles to prepare for the New Citizens Movement trials. Many Chinese voices were speaking out forcefully against these trials: law professors, rights lawyers, liberal...

‘A Touch of Sin,’ Four Tales from China by Jia Zhangke

A blistering fictionalized tale straight out of China, “A Touch of Sin” is at once monumental and human scale. A story of lives rocked by violence, it has the urgency of a screaming headline but one inscribed with emotional...