Xu Zhangrun vs. Tsinghua University
Voices of Protest & Resistance (XXIX)   In late June 2019, as Hong Kong was rocked by demonstrators protesting en masse against an Extradition Bill proposed by Carrie Lam (Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor 林鄭月娥, 1957-), the city’s Beijing-anointed chief executive, Professor Xu Zhangrun of Tsinghua University in Beijing published two books in the territory that, as chance would have it, highlighted the widespread concerns being expressed on the streets of the former British colony.… Read

Xu Zhangrun vs. Tsinghua University
Voices of Protest & Resistance (XXVIII)   For over three months, voices of protest have been raised in China and internationally in response to the persecution of Xu Zhangrun 許章潤, a professor of law at Tsinghua University in Beijing.… Read

The Best China   In this latest instalment in our series ‘The Best China’, we offer a commentary cum exhortation by the veteran journalist Lee Yee 李怡 (李秉堯) on the June-July 2019 Hong Kong Rebellion.… Read

Xu Zhangrun vs. Tsinghua University
Voices of Protest & Resistance (XXVII)   Gong Renren (龔刃韌, 1954-), the author of the following essay, is a professor (retired) in the Law School of Peking University (see here for details) and the head of the Institute for Human Rights 人權研究院.… Read

Xu Zhangrun vs. Tsinghua University
Voices of Protest & Resistance (XXVI)   The following speech was addressed to the graduating class of students in the College of Foreign Languages and Literature at Fudan University 復旦大學外國語言文學學院 in Shanghai on 17 June 2019.… Read

Translatio Imperii Sinici   In the speech translated below Wang Ke’er 王珂兒, a first-year student in senior high school, confronts the topic of 祖國 zǔguó, the ‘mother-/ fatherland’. The text of Wang’s speech was circulated online in October 2014, although assiduous official Net-Nazis scrubbed it from the Internet as quickly as it spread.… Read