In 2010, a case called “Three Net Friends” about the freedom of speech in Mainland China raised a storm of citizens movement. A case of a girl‘s sudden death happened in Minqing, Fujian. The police identified it as a natural death, but the girl’s mother believed that her daughter was raped to death by turns according to all indications. You Jingyou, Fan Yanqiong and Wu Huaying wrote articles and recorded videos for her and posted them online. Then, the police sentenced them to 1-2 years in prison on the charge of libel.

This event aroused strong indignation of the netizens and people from all over the country went to Mawei District People‘s Court in Fuzhou to express their support. It becomes a landmark event of modern Chinese citizens movement.

The BBC has been given rare access to the vast system of highly secure facilities thought to be holding more than a million Muslims in China’s western region of Xinjiang.

Authorities there insist they are just training schools. But the BBC’s visit uncovers important evidence about the nature of the system and the conditions for the people inside it.

Old Dog is a 2011 Tibetan feature film written and directed by Pema Tseden. Old Dog picks up the story of a father and son against the backdrop of China’s escalating trade in Tibetan mastiffs.

Pema Tseden was born in Guide County, Qinghai, in December 1969. He graduated from Northwest University for Nationalities, where he majored in Tibetan Language and Literature. After graduation, he worked as a primary school teacher and a civil servant. Then he pursued advanced studies at China’s most prestigious film school, Beijing Film Academy, where he became the Academy’s first-ever Tibetan student.

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A special undercover report from China’s secretive Xinjiang region. FRONTLINE investigates the Communist regime’s mass imprisonment of Muslims, and its use and testing of sophisticated surveillance technology against the Uyghur community.

An anthology of poems beautifully translated from Tibetan into English by Bhuchung D. Sonam.

Kalsang Yangzom’s review writes that “poetry speaks to the soul, to those inner workings of our hearts and mind that cannot be quantified, capable of inspiring revolutions, soothing troubled minds and providing courage in times of despair,” and describes this “collection of poetry is a much-needed addition to the corpus of contemporary Tibetan literature and a testament to the steady growth of demand for literature written by Tibetans.”

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Along the Silk Road, where Europe, Asia, and Russia converge, stands the four-thousand-year-old land of a peaceful people, the Uyghurs. Their culture is filled with music, dance, family and love of tradition passed down by storytelling through the ages.

This autobiography presents the story of Rebiya Kadeer’s journey from humble beginnings to her position as a powerful figure fighting for the Uyghurs’ self-determination against Chinese domination. Devoted to the principles of nonviolence, Kadeer’s courage,intellect, morality and sacrifice give hope to the nearly eleven million Uyghurs worldwide on whose behalf she speaks.

Introduction by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

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A feminist movement clashing with China’s authoritarian government.

On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists, and online warriors prompting an unprecedented awakening among China’s educated, urban women. In Betraying Big Brother, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses the greatest challenge to China’s authoritarian regime today.

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In 2019, these journalists were at the frontlines of Hong Kong’s historic protest movement: You’ve probably read their coverage on news outlets like the New York Times, Reuters, CNN, the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Free Press, and many more.

On June 4, 1989, People’s Liberation Army soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians in Beijing, killing untold hundreds of people. A quarter-century later, this defining event remains buried in China’s modern history, successfully expunged from collective memory. In The People’s Republic of Amnesia, former BBC correspondent Louisa Lim charts how the events of June 4th changed China, and how China changed the events of June 4th by rewriting its own history.

The book uncovers details of the brutal crackdown and how it is a near-perfect case study in the state’s ability to rewrite history, excising the most painful episodes.

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