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Chinese Dissidents

China: Spirituality Or Materialism?

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

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Arthur Rosenfeld

Stripped of their cultural heritage by the brutality of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese seem to be in a headlong rush to what they think they want and need--the material excess of the West.

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Frankfurt Book Fair Official Fired For Treatment Of Chinese

The New York Times | STEVEN ERLANGER | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

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The Frankfurt Book Fair, which struggled to find a balance between free speech and honoring China as its featured country, dismissed its project manag...

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China Dissidents Top Nobel Peace Prize Speculation

AP | DOUG MELLGREN and IAN MacDOUGALL | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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OSLO — Chinese dissidents are leading the odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre...

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Tiananmen Anniversary: Chinese Dissident Wu Gaoxing Arrested

New York Times | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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With the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement approaching, government security agents have detained a noted Chinese dissid...

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Chinese Democracy -- the 1978 Version

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

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Jeffrey Wasserstrom

More than a decade before the June 4th Massacre, right after Deng's Reform era began in China, came the "Democracy Wall Movement" -- named for a Beijing area where critics started putting up posters in 1978.

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Falun Gong, Other "Troublemakers" Confined to Shanghai During Games

AP | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

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BEIJING — Shanghai has banned dissidents, Falun Gong members and other regime critics from leaving the city during the August Olympics, a human ...

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