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
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
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
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
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
Anniversaries New & Old in 2019 — Remembering 5.4, Accounting for 4.28
Xu Zhangrun vs. Tsinghua University
Voices of Protest & Resistance (XVIII) As we noted in ‘May Fourth at Ninety-nine’, published in China Heritage on 4 May 2018: The Fourth of May marks China’s annual National Youth Day 五四青年節.… Read
Voices of Protest & Resistance (XVIII) As we noted in ‘May Fourth at Ninety-nine’, published in China Heritage on 4 May 2018: The Fourth of May marks China’s annual National Youth Day 五四青年節.… Read