A Breach of the Law, a Betrayal of Autonomy — No Way for a University to Act!

Xu Zhangrun vs. Tsinghua University
Voices of Protest & Resistance (XXIII)   Gao Quanxi 高全喜, the author of the following essay of protest concerning the persecution of Xu Zhangrun 許章潤 by Tsinghua University, is a chair professor in the Koguan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 上海交通大學凱原法學院講席教授.… Read

An Eye Not Blind, a Heart Not Stony and Corrupt — Being Able to Live With Oneself

Xu Zhangrun vs. Tsinghua University
Voices of Protest & Resistance (XXII)   Since he has been subject to an ‘internal investigation’ — one that, apart from being an egregious assault on a respected scholar’s dignity, is both psychologically torturous and physically debilitating — conducted under the auspices of the ‘human resources’ department of Tsinghua University (and ‘shadowed’ by its murky overlords), Professor Xu Zhangrun is forbidden from writing for publication on mainland China.… Read

Digesting the Tsinghua Protests (II)

Xu Zhangrun vs. Tsinghua University
Voices of Protest & Resistance (XXI)   For some six weeks, 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

Rashomon & Growing Pains at Tsinghua University

Xu Zhangrun vs. Tsinghua University
Voices of Protest & Resistance (XX)   The following record of the 28 April 2019 protest by Tsinghua University alumni centred at the Wang Guowei Commemorative Stele on campus was written by Yan Huai 閻淮, one of the organisers of the 31 March petition that appealed for the reinstatement of Professor Xu Zhangrun 許章潤, who had been put under investigation by the university for unspecified reasons.… Read

Living Lies in China Today

Xu Zhangrun vs. Tsinghua University
Voices of Protest & Resistance (XIX)   It was not until 1989 that ‘Live Not By Lies’, an essay written by the Soviet dissident novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) in 1974, finally appeared in the Soviet media.… Read