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Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter II
Part II 古今多少事，都付笑談中   During Mid Autumn Festival 2024, Xu Zhangrun, legal scholar, Xi Jinping critic, purged academic and one of Beijing’s defiant Former People, was able to meet up with Jifeng 季風, a vagabond democracy activist.… Read

The Other China   The prison-murder of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny, 4 June 1976-16 February 2024, reverberated in the Chinese world. Some recalled the death in incarceration of Liu Xiaobo in July 2017, others asked why there was no opposition figure with either the fame or the popularity of the Russian dissident in China.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium 人日節   The 16th February 2024 marks the Seventh Day of the First Lunar Month of the jiachen Year of the Dragon. In China, ‘The Seventh of the First’ 正月初七 is celebrated as ‘The Festival of Humanity’ 人日節 rén rì jié, also known as 人慶節 rén qìng jié.… Read

Xu Zhangrun Archive   On 5 December 2023, the Wei Jingsheng Foundation announced that Professor Xu Zhangrun had been awarded the Twentieth Annual Wei Jingsheng Chinese Democracy Champion Prize. The text of the announcement is reproduced below.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix XLV & Xu Zhangrun Archive   今夜越獄，詩詞為羽   ‘Tonight, Taking Flight on Wings of Poetry I Soar Out of My Confinement’ 今夜越獄，詩詞為羽 is the title of a poem composed by Xu Zhangrun on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the fateful day on which he released his jeremiad ‘Imminent Fears, Immediate Hopes’ — a Beijing Jeremiad 我們當下的恐懼與期待.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter II
Part I ∓ 加減   The Sixth of July in the Year of the Dog —
I was reborn, from a sacrificial offering on an exquisite altar
Detention set me on a course to join a broader humanity
After my lustration, I share the embrace of a different fellowship 七月六日，歲在庚子
我重生於一場優美的獻祭
因為囚禁，從此奔向了全人類
人類用泯於眾人將我緬懷 This is the first stanza in a pair of poems composed by Xu Zhangrun, formerly a professor of jurisprudence, on the eve of 6 July 2023.… Read