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Chen Guangcheng | April 29 for negotiations with representatives of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After several days of media speculation as to his whereabouts, Chen was confirmed on 2 May to have been under U.S. diplomatic protection at the embassy.
According to embassy representatives, the agreement brokered with Chinese auth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Guangcheng | 1,975 | 2 | 3 |
Tank Man | Tank Man (also known as the Unknown Protester or the Unknown Rebel) is the nickname given to an unidentified individual, presumed to be a Chinese man, who stood in front of a column of Type 59 tanks on Chang'an Avenue near Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989. The confrontation occurred one day after the governm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man | 2,048 | 0 | 3 |
Tank Man | , Kenneth Roth, said the idea that it was an inadvertent error is "hard to believe". David Greene, Civil Liberties Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that content moderation was impossible to do perfectly and "egregious mistakes are made all the time", but, he further elaborated, "At worst, this was p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man | 2,048 | 1 | 3 |
Tank Man | of casualties.)
The Tiananmen Papers: The Chinese Leadership's Decision to Use Force Against their Own People—In their Own Words, Compiled by Zhang Liang, Edited by Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link, with an afterword by Orville Schell, PublicAffairs, New York, 2001, hardback, 514 pages, ISBN 1-58648-012-X (An extensive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man | 287 | 2 | 3 |
Peng Shuai | Peng Shuai (Chinese: 彭帅; pinyin: Péng Shuài; Mandarin pronunciation: [pʰə̌ŋ ʂwâɪ] ; born 8 January 1986) is a Chinese former professional tennis player. In February 2014, she was ranked as the world No. 1 doubles player by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), becoming the first Chinese tennis player to achieve that ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_Shuai | 2,048 | 0 | 3 |
Peng Shuai | 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou. She won gold in the team event alongside Li Na, Yan Zi and Zhang Shuai. In the doubles event, she gained a bronze with partner Yan Zi, and in the singles event, she won another gold, defeating Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan.
=== 2011–2012: Singles career-high No. 14 ===
At the 2011 A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_Shuai | 2,048 | 1 | 3 |
Peng Shuai | to Vesnina/Makarova with a match tie-break. She reached the fourth round in Indian Wells but fell in the first round in the Madrid Open against Carla Suárez Navarro.
She won her second tour singles title at the Jiangxi International Open in Nanchan, China defeating Nao Hibino in the final.
=== 2018: TIU sanction ===... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_Shuai | 1,399 | 2 | 3 |
Gao Zhisheng | Gao Zhisheng (born 20 April 1964) is a Chinese human rights attorney and dissident known for defending activists and religious minorities and documenting human rights abuses in China. Because of his work, Zhisheng has been disbarred and detained by the Chinese government several times, and severely tortured. He disappe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao_Zhisheng | 2,048 | 0 | 2 |
Gao Zhisheng | ons, and the insertion of toothpicks into his genitalia, followed by weeks of emotional torture. Gao wrote that his torturers said his case had become personal with 'uncles' in the state security apparatus after he had repeatedly publicised previous mistreatment.
=== Conversion to Christianity ===
According to his ow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao_Zhisheng | 1,257 | 1 | 2 |
Wei Jingsheng | Wei Jingsheng (Chinese: 魏京生; born 20 May 1950) is a Chinese human rights activist and dissident. He is best known for his involvement in the Chinese democracy movement. He is most prominent for having authored the essay "The Fifth Modernization", which was posted on the Democracy Wall in Beijing in 1978. As punishment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Jingsheng | 1,720 | 0 | 1 |
Wang Dan (dissident) | Wang Dan (Chinese: 王丹; born 26 February 1969) is a Chinese activist in the Chinese democracy movement who was one of the most visible student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
From August 2009 to February 2010, Wang taught cross-strait history at Taiwan's National Chengchi University as a visiting scho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Dan_(dissident) | 2,048 | 0 | 2 |
Wang Dan (dissident) | attempted rape, while Wang said Lee's allegations were unfounded.
Nearly a year after the 2024 incident, Lee Yuan-chun received a 'Non-Prosecution Notice' from the Taipei District Prosecutors Office and publicly shared partial screenshots of the notice on Facebook. The notice indicated that, based on Lee's testimony,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Dan_(dissident) | 1,287 | 1 | 2 |
Hu Jia (activist) | Hu Jia (Chinese: 胡佳; pinyin: Hú Jiā; born July 25, 1973) is a Chinese civil rights activist and critic of the Chinese Communist Party. His work has focused on the Chinese democracy movement, Chinese environmentalist movement, and HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China. Hu is the director of June Fourth Heritage & C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Jia_(activist) | 2,048 | 0 | 2 |
Hu Jia (activist) | 12-06-10 at the Wayback Machine
Chinese AIDS activist missing for six weeks returns home
Interview With AIDS Activist Hu Jia
Hu Jia's blog, translated by Google Translate.
Hu Jia's Live Spaces blog in Chinese
Friends of Nature website (in Chinese)
Prisoners in Freedom City, a documentary by Hu Jia and Zeng Jinyan (with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Jia_(activist) | 139 | 1 | 2 |
Xu Zhiyong | Xu Zhiyong (Chinese: 许志永; pinyin: Xǔ Zhìyǒng; born March 2, 1973) is a Chinese civil rights activist and formerly a lecturer at the Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications. He was one of the founders of the NGO Open Constitution Initiative and an active rights lawyer in China who campaigned against corruption... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Zhiyong | 2,048 | 0 | 2 |
Xu Zhiyong | .
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, 2024
On January 31, 2024, Chair Representative Smith Christopher and Co-chair Senator Jeff Merkley of the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China nominated Xu to receive the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his "commitment to human rights and peace in China".
== See also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Zhiyong | 110 | 1 | 2 |
Ilham Tohti | Ilham Tohti (Uyghur: ئىلھام توختى; Chinese: 伊力哈木·土赫提; pinyin: Yīlìhāmù Tǔhètí; born October 25, 1969) is a Uyghur economist currently serving a life sentence in China, on separatism-related charges. He is a vocal advocate for the implementation of regional autonomy laws in China. In 2006 he founded Uyghur Online, a web... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilham_Tohti | 2,048 | 0 | 2 |
Ilham Tohti | to Tohti's release on the 10th anniversary of his arrest.
== Awards and recognition ==
On April 1, 2014, Ilham was awarded the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award, an American human rights award given to writers anywhere in the world who fight for freedom of expression. According to the statement from PEN,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilham_Tohti | 773 | 1 | 2 |
Rebiya Kadeer | Rebiya Kadeer (Uyghur: رابىيە قادىر, romanized: Rabiye Qadir; born 15 November 1946) is an ethnic Uyghur Chinese businesswoman and political activist. Born in Altay City, Xinjiang, China, Kadeer became a millionaire in the 1980s through her real estate holdings and ownership of a multinational conglomerate. Kadeer held... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebiya_Kadeer | 2,048 | 0 | 2 |
Rebiya Kadeer | were ostensibly a response to the death of two Uyghur workers in Guangdong, the Chinese government catapulted Kadeer into the limelight when it claimed the WUC, which she heads, had planned the riots.
Taiwan denied a visa to Kadeer in September 2009, alleging she had links to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebiya_Kadeer | 1,193 | 1 | 2 |
Teng Biao | Teng Biao (Chinese: 滕彪) is a Chinese lawyer and political activist. He is a lecturer at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. He has been a vocal supporter of human rights activists such as Chen Guangcheng and Hu Jia. He has been arrested at least twice, in March 2008 and in February 2011. He wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teng_Biao | 674 | 0 | 1 |
Ren Zhiqiang | Ren Zhiqiang (Chinese: 任志强; born 8 March 1951) is an incarcerated Chinese real estate tycoon. Nicknamed "Big Cannon Ren", he is known for his outspoken views on Sina Weibo, where he accumulated more than 37 million followers until it was deleted by the Chinese authorities in 2016. He disappeared on 12 March 2020 after ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Zhiqiang | 1,289 | 0 | 1 |
Zhao Ziyang | Zhao Ziyang (17 October 1919 – 17 January 2005) was a Chinese politician. He served as the 3rd premier of China from 1980 to 1987, as vice chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1981 to 1982, and as the CCP general secretary from 1987 to 1989. He was in charge of the political reforms in China from 1986, bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Ziyang | 2,048 | 0 | 6 |
Zhao Ziyang | as 1st CCP Secretary and Revolutionary Committee Chair in April 1974. He became Political Commissar of the Chengdu Military Region in December 1975.
=== Economic reforms in Sichuan ===
Zhao was appointed Party Secretary of Sichuan in 1975, effectively the province's highest-ranking official. Earlier in the Cultural ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Ziyang | 2,048 | 1 | 6 |
Zhao Ziyang | most respected by Zhao, and Zhao would frequently attempt to consult with Chen before implementing new policies. Li Xiannian resented Zhao personally for Zhao's interest in foreign culture, and his willingness to learn from economic models that had been successful outside of China. According to Zhao, Li Xiannian "hate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Ziyang | 2,048 | 2 | 6 |
Zhao Ziyang | 3th Central Committee. The meeting included the Party's most influential elders, and aimed to shape the government's response to the events of 4 June, by consolidating support for the armed crackdown and removing Zhao from office. Participants were invited to display their loyalty to Deng by endorsing two documents: De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Ziyang | 2,048 | 3 | 6 |
Zhao Ziyang | remembrance of Zhao, organized by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China.
=== International response ===
Similar memorials were held around the world, notably in New York City and Washington, DC where American government officials and exiled political dissidents attended.
In Ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Ziyang | 2,048 | 4 | 6 |
Zhao Ziyang | , Xinhua News Agency)
China's Purged Chinese leader dies (CNN)
Obituary: Zhao Ziyang (BBC)
Chinese media muted on Zhao death (BBC)
Online tributes to Zhao Ziyang (BBC)
The Prisoner of Conscience: Zhao Ziyang, 1919–2005 (TIME)
Chinese Leader Purged for Supporting Tiananmen Protesters Dies at 85 (The New York Times)
Chin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Ziyang | 230 | 5 | 6 |
Hu Yaobang | Hu Yaobang (20 November 1915 – 15 April 1989) was a Chinese politician who was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China. He held the top office of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1981 to 1987, first as Chairman from 1981 to 1982, then as General Secretary from 1982 to 1987. After the Cultural Re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Yaobang | 2,048 | 0 | 4 |
Hu Yaobang | home in Beijing. Hu opposed Hua Guofeng's "Two Whatevers" policy, and was an important supporter of Deng Xiaoping's ascent to power.
== Reformer ==
=== Public policies ===
Hu Yaobang's rise to power was engineered by Deng Xiaoping, and Hu rose to the highest levels of the Party after Deng displaced Hua Guofeng as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Yaobang | 2,048 | 1 | 4 |
Hu Yaobang | accompanied by his wife. Hu died several days later, on 15 April. He was 73 years old. Hu's last words were that he should be buried simply, without extravagance, in his hometown.
In his official obituary, Hu was described as "a long-tested and staunch communist warrior, a great proletarian revolutionist and statesman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Yaobang | 2,048 | 2 | 4 |
Hu Yaobang | 20 November 2015, the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Hu Yaobang, Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping held a high-profile commemoration ceremony for Hu Yaobang in Beijing. In contrast to the event held by the previous leadership ten years earlier, the 100th anniversary event was deliberately high-profile an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Yaobang | 621 | 3 | 4 |
Bao Tong | Bao Tong (Chinese: 鲍彤; 5 November 1932 – 9 November 2022) was a Chinese writer and activist. He was Director of the Office of Political Reform of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Policy Secretary of Zhao Ziyang (Chinese Premier from 1980 to 1987 and CCP General Secretary from 1987 to 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_Tong | 2,048 | 0 | 2 |
Bao Tong | To mourn Zhao is to defend human rights. To mourn Zhao is to pursue democracy and the rule of law."
On the 2008 Chinese milk scandal: "The tainted milk scandal shows us that the more dark secrets are exposed, the better. You can't cure the disease, or save the Chinese people, until you get to the root of the problem.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_Tong | 160 | 1 | 2 |
Bo Xilai | Bo Xilai (Chinese: 薄熙来; pinyin: Bó Xīlái; born 3 July 1949) is a Chinese former politician who was convicted on bribery and embezzlement charges. He came to prominence through his tenures as Mayor of Dalian and then the governor of Liaoning. From 2004 to November 2007, he served as Minister of Commerce. Between 2007 an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Xilai | 2,048 | 0 | 7 |
Bo Xilai | instead.
=== 15th Party Congress ===
During the 15th Party Congress in 1997, Bo Xilai's family launched an unsuccessful campaign to secure his promotion to the Central Committee of the CCP. Although nepotism was generally frowned upon in China, Bo Yibo's ambitions for his son were well known. Bo Yibo suggested that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Xilai | 2,048 | 1 | 7 |
Bo Xilai | Party Congress ===
At the 17th Party Congress in October 2007, Bo gained a seat on the 25-member Politburo, effectively China's ruling council. He was then tipped to leave the Ministry of Commerce and take over as CCP Committee secretary of Chongqing. Bo's predecessor, political rival Wang Yang, was reassigned as part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Xilai | 2,048 | 2 | 7 |
Bo Xilai | in a red sea", and bringing back painful memories from the Cultural Revolution. Several mid-level officials in the city committed suicide due to overwhelming pressure to organize events for the red songs campaign. Bo's critics derisively referred to him as "little Mao".
==== Social policies ====
A cornerstone of Bo'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Xilai | 2,048 | 3 | 7 |
Bo Xilai | came under investigation. Much of the attention focused on Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, who may have been under investigation for his role in a corruption case in Liaoning. Growing scrutiny over the city's wiretapping operation against senior leaders also likely fell mainly on Wang. Although details are scarce, seve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Xilai | 2,048 | 4 | 7 |
Bo Xilai | , at his trial, Bo recanted a series of confessions he had made during the investigation, denying all charges against him. On 22 September, the court found him guilty on all counts, including accepting bribes and abuses of power, stripped him of all his personal assets, and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
=== Aft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Xilai | 2,048 | 5 | 7 |
Bo Xilai | 019), Bo is played by Jesse Wang. The film is banned in China, with its Douban page removed before its release in 2019.
== See also ==
Politics of Liaoning
Politics of Chongqing
== References ==
== External links ==
News about Bo Xilai at China Digital Times.
Biography and recent career data Archived 28 August 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Xilai | 133 | 6 | 7 |
Zhou Yongkang | Zhou Yongkang (Chinese: 周永康; born December 3, 1942) is a former senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (2007–2012) elected Zhou to be one of the nine members of the 17th Politburo Standing Committee; the highest decision-making body of the CCP, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Yongkang | 2,048 | 0 | 5 |
Zhou Yongkang | outsider, changed the province's political landscape. He spearheaded economic modernization policies, focusing on agriculture. Sichuan was known to be a province highly dependent on agriculture, and its government operated at a slower pace compared to those of China's coastal regions. Zhou was known for his quick and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Yongkang | 2,048 | 1 | 5 |
Zhou Yongkang | inflicted great suffering on the country and its people." Pu wrote that the weiwen policies spearheaded by Zhou had severely undermined progress in the protection of human rights and rule of law, led to unprecedented levels of popular distrust of government authority, expanded the realm of party control in the lives o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Yongkang | 2,048 | 2 | 5 |
Zhou Yongkang | daughter-in-law Huang Wan were taken into custody. The home of Zhou's younger brother Zhou Yuanxing (周元兴) was searched by the authorities twice. Yuanxing died in December 2013 after a battle with cancer. Zhou Yongkang and his son Zhou Bin were not present at the funeral, fueling speculation that Zhou and his family me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Yongkang | 2,048 | 3 | 5 |
Zhou Yongkang | sentenced to 18 years in prison. The younger Zhou is married to Chinese-American Huang Wan (黄婉), whom he met while studying oil and gas exploration in Texas. Huang's mother, Zhan Minli (詹敏利), held a stake in a number of companies with business dealings with China National Petroleum and lives in southern California. Zh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Yongkang | 138 | 4 | 5 |
Ling Jihua | Ling Jihua (born 22 October 1956) is a former Chinese politician and one of the principal political advisers of former leader Hu Jintao. Ling was best known for his tenure as director of the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party between 2007 and 2012. Ling was charged with corruption, bribery, and other miscond... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ling_Jihua | 2,048 | 0 | 2 |
Ling Jihua | 2014, and dismissed from his position as United Front Work Department head about a week later. The CPPCC then removed him from the office of vice-chairman in February 2015, in addition to stripping him of his ordinary CPPCC delegate status.
Several weeks prior to the announcement of the investigation, Ling continued t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ling_Jihua | 1,387 | 1 | 2 |
Wang Lijun incident | The Wang Lijun incident was a major Chinese political scandal which began in February 2012 when Wang Lijun, vice-mayor of Chongqing, was abruptly demoted, after revealing to the United States consulate details of British businessman Neil Heywood's murder and subsequent cover-up. Amidst rumors of political infighting wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Lijun_incident | 2,048 | 0 | 2 |
Wang Lijun incident | actions might imperil Bo Xilai's further political advancement. China analyst Willy Wo-Lap Lam suggested that the Wang Lijun incident would doom Bo's chances of further advancement to the Politburo Standing Committee: "When they do the horse-trading in Beijing, his enemies will definitely use this to shoot down his ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Lijun_incident | 671 | 1 | 2 |
Sun Zhengcai | Sun Zhengcai (Chinese: 孙政才; born September 25, 1963) is a former Chinese politician and senior regional official. From 2012 to 2017, Sun served as the Party Secretary of Chongqing, an interior municipality, and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. Prior to that, he served as the Party Secretary of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Zhengcai | 2,048 | 0 | 2 |
Sun Zhengcai | the aftermath of Sun's expulsion, numerous party leaders in the jurisdictions Sun once served declared their loyalty to the decision. The party organization in Jilin province, where Sun once worked as party chief, took the opportunity to take a swipe at Sun's term there, publicly declaring, "Sun did not care about iss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Zhengcai | 1,018 | 1 | 2 |
Persecution of Falun Gong | The persecution of Falun Gong is the campaign initiated in 1999 by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to eliminate the new religious movement Falun Gong in China, maintaining a doctrine of state atheism. It is characterized by a multifaceted propaganda campaign, a program of enforced ideological conversion and re-educat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong | 2,048 | 0 | 7 |
Persecution of Falun Gong | Gong's popularity, its independence from the state and refusal to toe the Party line, internal power politics within the Communist Party, and Falun Gong's moral and spiritual content, which put it at odds with the Party's Marxist–Leninist atheist ideology.
A World Journal report suggested that certain high-level Party... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong | 2,048 | 1 | 7 |
Persecution of Falun Gong | aired in the media. The propaganda campaign focused on allegations that Falun Gong jeopardized social stability, was deceiving and dangerous, was "anti-science" and threatened progress, and argued that Falun Gong's moral philosophy was incompatible with a Marxist social ethic.
For several months China Central Televisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong | 2,048 | 2 | 7 |
Persecution of Falun Gong | topics on the Chinese Internet, and individuals found downloading or circulating information online about Falun Gong risk imprisonment.
Chinese authorities began filtering and blocking overseas websites as early as the mid-1990s, and in 1998 the Ministry of Public Security developed plans for the "Golden Shield Projec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong | 2,048 | 3 | 7 |
Persecution of Falun Gong | him to renounce Falun Gong. He was tortured to death within 11 days.
Government authorities deny that Falun Gong practitioners are killed in custody. They attribute deaths to suicide, illness, or other accidents.
=== Forced organ harvesting ===
In 2006, allegations emerged that many Falun Gong practitioners had bee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong | 2,048 | 4 | 7 |
Persecution of Falun Gong | refuse to release." Practitioners who are involuntarily detained in the transformation centers must pay tuition fees amounting to hundreds of dollars. The fees are extorted from family members as well as from practitioners' work units and employers.
The government's use of "brainwashing sessions" began in 1999, but t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong | 2,048 | 5 | 7 |
Persecution of Falun Gong | think you can make the connections that... they are using prisoners, and they need prisoners who are relatively healthy, they need prisoners who are relatively younger. It doesn't take a great stretch of the imagination that some Falun Gong [practitioners] are going to be among those who are going to be killed for par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong | 1,647 | 6 | 7 |
Falun Gong | Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, is a new religious movement founded by its leader Li Hongzhi in China in the early 1990s. Falun Gong has its global headquarters in Dragon Springs, a 173-hectare (427-acre) compound in Deerpark, New York, United States, near the residence of Li.
Falun Gong emerged from the qigong mov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong | 2,048 | 0 | 10 |
Falun Gong | the seated lotus position. Called "Reinforcing Supernatural Powers", it is a meditation intended to be maintained as long as possible.
Falun Gong exercises can be practiced individually or in group settings, and can be performed for varying lengths of time in accordance with the needs and abilities of the individual p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong | 2,048 | 1 | 10 |
Falun Gong | term. Yuezhi Zhao describes Falun Gong as "a multifaceted and totalizing movement that means different things to different people, ranging from a set of physical exercises and a praxis of transformation to a moral philosophy and a new knowledge system."
In the cultural context of China, Falun Gong is generally describ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong | 2,048 | 2 | 10 |
Falun Gong | , isolated, or who simply prefer solitude may elect to practice privately. When there are expenses to be covered (such as for the rental of facilities for large-scale conferences), costs are borne by self-nominated and relatively affluent individual members of the community.
=== Within China ===
In 1993, the Beijing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong | 2,048 | 3 | 10 |
Falun Gong | results", according to the fair's organizer. The event helped cement Li's popularity, and journalistic reports of Falun Gong's healing powers spread. In 1993, Li received a letter of appreciation from the Ministry of Public Security for providing treatment to around 100 police officers injured while on duty.
Falun Gon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong | 2,048 | 4 | 10 |
Falun Gong | on the morning of 25 April, upwards of 10,000 practitioners gathered near the central appeals office to demand an end to the escalating harassment against the movement, and request the release of the Tianjin practitioners. According to Benjamin Penny, practitioners sought redress from the leadership of the country by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong | 2,048 | 5 | 10 |
Falun Gong | eness."
Maria Chang commented that since the overthrow of the Qin dynasty, "Millenarian movements had exerted a profound impact on the course of Chinese history", culminating in the Chinese Revolutions of 1949, which brought the Chinese Communists to power. Patsy Rahn (2002) describes a paradigm of conflict between Chi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong | 2,048 | 6 | 10 |
Falun Gong | government operation was "a study in all-out demonization". Falun Gong was compared to "a rat crossing the street that everyone shouts out to squash" by Beijing Daily; other officials said it would be a "long-term, complex and serious" struggle to "eradicate" Falun Gong.
State propaganda initially used the appeal of s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong | 2,048 | 7 | 10 |
Falun Gong | injuries sustained while imprisoned.
Outside China, Falun Gong practitioners established international media organizations to gain wider exposure for their cause and challenge narratives of the Chinese state-run media. These include The Epoch Times newspaper, New Tang Dynasty Television, and Sound of Hope radio statio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong | 2,048 | 8 | 10 |
Falun Gong | Gong.
Sociologist Andrew Junker stated that "secularist biases" and the risk of "severe professional sanction" by the Chinese government are two primary factors that distort Western scholars' understanding of Falun Gong. He wrote: "The combined result of these two factors is a kind of blindness. As we try to stand out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong | 150 | 9 | 10 |
Charter 08 | Charter 08 is a manifesto initially signed by 303 Chinese dissident intellectuals and human rights activists. It was published on 10 December 2008, the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopting its name and style from the anti-Soviet Charter 77 issued by dissidents in Czechoslovakia. Since... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_08 | 1,427 | 0 | 1 |
2022 COVID-19 protests in China | A series of protests against COVID-19 lockdowns began in mainland China in November 2022. Colloquially referred to as the White Paper Protests (Chinese: 白纸抗议; pinyin: Bái zhǐ kàngyì) or the A4 Revolution (Chinese: 白纸革命; pinyin: Bái zhǐ gémìng), the demonstrations started in response to measures taken by the Chinese gov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_COVID-19_protests_in_China | 2,048 | 0 | 4 |
2022 COVID-19 protests in China | of the Communication University of China, Nanjing, holding a blank sheet of paper, until it was snatched from her. Subsequently, hundreds of students gathered on the steps with blank sheets of paper to hold a candlelight vigil for victims of the fire, using phone flashlights as stand-ins for candles and held up blank ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_COVID-19_protests_in_China | 2,048 | 1 | 4 |
2022 COVID-19 protests in China | early for winter break, offering free rail and air travel to take them home.
By midday, there had been at least 43 small-scale protests in 22 cities.
Videos showed small-scale protests inside locked-down developments, with residents demanding to be freed.
On social networks outside of the Chinese government's control,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_COVID-19_protests_in_China | 2,048 | 2 | 4 |
2022 COVID-19 protests in China | picking quarrels and provoking trouble". Although some individuals were released soon afterwards, or just in advance of the Lunar New Year, others remained in detention or were formally charged.
One Chinese woman accused Chinese authorities of forcing some to sign blank arrest warrants and detaining them in secret loca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_COVID-19_protests_in_China | 1,872 | 3 | 4 |
Jasic incident | The Jasic incident (Chinese: 佳士事件; pinyin: Jiāshì shìjiàn) was a labour dispute in Pingshan District, Shenzhen of the Guangdong province of the People's Republic of China between labour organizers and Chinese authorities that lasted from July to August 2018.
The dispute began on 27 July 2018 when a group of workers of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasic_incident | 2,048 | 0 | 2 |
Jasic incident | of the workers are guaranteed!
Neither Xi Jinping or any representative replied or acknowledged the letter.
=== Mass arrest ===
On the morning of 24 August 2018, police raided an apartment that served as a location for workers and students to organize, detaining about 50 people, who were singing L'Internationale at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasic_incident | 1,316 | 1 | 2 |
Democracy movements of China | Democracy movements in the People's Republic of China are a series of organized political movements, inside and outside of the country, addressing a variety of grievances, including objections to socialist bureaucratism and objections to the continuation of the one-party rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) itself... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_movements_of_China | 795 | 0 | 1 |
Great Firewall | The Great Firewall (GFW; simplified Chinese: 防火长城; traditional Chinese: 防火長城; pinyin: Fánghuǒ Chángchéng) is the combination of legislative actions and technologies enforced by the People's Republic of China to regulate the Internet domestically. Its role in internet censorship in China is to block access to selected f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall | 2,048 | 0 | 3 |
Great Firewall | or the PSB. To illustrate local regulation of internet cafés, in one instance, a government official in the town of Gedong lawfully banned internet cafés from operating in the town because he believed them to be harmful to minors, who frequented them to play online games (including those considered violent) and surf t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall | 2,048 | 1 | 3 |
Great Firewall | a few sites including TorProject and all of GitHub, which may be used to obtain further circumvention. In 2019 Firefox released an update to make it easy to enable DNS over HTTPS. Despite DNS over encryption, the majority of services remain blocked by IP.
Ignoring TCP reset packets sent by the GFW. Distinguishing them... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall | 1,422 | 2 | 3 |
Internet censorship in China | Internet censorship is one of the forms of censorship, the suppression of speech, public communication and other information. The People's Republic of China (PRC) censors both the publishing and viewing of online material. Many controversial events are censored from news coverage, preventing many Chinese citizens from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China | 2,048 | 0 | 7 |
Internet censorship in China | .
=== Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China ===
On 6 November 2017, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress promulgated a cybersecurity law which among other things requires "network operators" to store data locally, hand over information when requested by state security organs and ope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China | 2,048 | 1 | 7 |
Internet censorship in China | December 2022, the Regulations on the Administration of Internet Followers' Commenting Services came into force, which for the first time considered "likes" as a type of comment. In addition, the regulations state that public accounts must take the initiative to review the comments left by netizens. Some experts have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China | 2,048 | 2 | 7 |
Internet censorship in China | of media outlets and businesses."
Political scientist Margaret Roberts contends that most Chinese censorship methods do not ban information outright but instead function "as a tax on information, forcing users to pay money or spend more time if they want to access the censored material."
== Targets of censorship ==
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China | 2,048 | 3 | 7 |
Internet censorship in China | 5, Chinese Wikipedia has been blocked in mainland China. This was done after Wikipedia started to use HTTPS encryption, which made selective censorship more difficult (see also Wikimedia blockade in mainland China).
== Specific examples of Internet censorship ==
=== Tiananmen Square protests and massacre ===
The C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China | 2,048 | 4 | 7 |
Internet censorship in China | Chinese government censored related keywords online and shut down internet chatrooms addressing the issues in an effort to decrease bilateral tension between the two countries.
Since 2013, pictures comparing Disney character Winnie the Pooh to Xi Jinping have been systematically removed on the Chinese Internet followi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China | 2,048 | 5 | 7 |
Internet censorship in China | gooG after China blocked Google. This has since been blocked.
=== Modifying the network stack ===
In July 2006, researchers at Cambridge University claimed to have defeated the firewall by ignoring the TCP reset packets.
=== Using Tor and DPI-resistant tools ===
Although many users use VPNs to circumvent the Great ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China | 1,445 | 6 | 7 |
Censorship in China | Censorship in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is mandated by the country's ruling party, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is one of the strictest censorship regimes in the world. The government censors content for mainly political reasons, such as curtailing political opposition, and censoring events unfavora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China | 2,048 | 0 | 7 |
Censorship in China | prevent in the disclosure and infringement of any important national or personal information. Song Minlei points out that censorship is conducive to the maintenance of China's "ideological security." Internet censorship, Song writes, can protect the mainstream ideology, such as the core socialist value system, prevent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China | 2,048 | 1 | 7 |
Censorship in China | that the state finds to be contrary to the official state beliefs. Content censored on moral grounds has included pornography in China, particularly extreme pornography; violence in films; "low-culture" and morally "problematic" performances, such as hip-hop or those featuring visibly tattooed artists and LGBTQ conten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China | 2,048 | 2 | 7 |
Censorship in China | . They also state that "on the other hand, censoring keywords critical of central leadership and government actors may be an effort to avoid embarrassment and maintain a positive image of the government." Historian Jeremy Brown said, "the initial cover-up of the virus in December and January in Wuhan allowed it to spre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China | 2,048 | 3 | 7 |
Censorship in China | " by British rock group Japan.
The album X by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue was released as a 10-track edition of the album by EMI Records. The album got three tracks banned due to strict censorship in the People's Republic of China. The tracks that were omitted were "Nu-di-ty", "Speakerphone" and "Like a Drug".
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China | 2,048 | 4 | 7 |
Censorship in China | – Zero Hour (for "smearing the image of China and the Chinese army")
Battlefield 4 (for "smearing the image of China and endangering national security")
The historic ban of major video game consoles in the country was lifted in 2014 as part of the establishment of the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone. Consoles had been banned... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China | 2,048 | 5 | 7 |
Censorship in China | report published by the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) and "ARTICLE 19" in July 2001, the Chairman of the HKJA said: "More and more newspapers self-censor themselves because they are controlled by either a businessman with close ties to Beijing, or part of a large enterprise, which has financial interests ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China | 1,908 | 6 | 7 |
Censorship of Winnie-the-Pooh in China | Beginning in July 2017, the government of the People's Republic of China implemented restrictions on images of the anthropomorphic teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, particularly Disney's depiction of the character from the works of A. A. Milne. Censorship emerged after internet users began using images of Winnie-the-Pooh in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China | 2,048 | 0 | 2 |
Censorship of Winnie-the-Pooh in China | 2025, CBR reported the Marvel-based video game Marvel Rivals had banned the phrase "Winnie the Pooh" from chat and showed the message "Text contains inappropriate content" if a player attempts to do so. The game's developer, NetEase, is a Chinese company in partnership with Marvel.
== See also ==
Erdoğan–Gollum comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China | 165 | 1 | 2 |
996 working hour system | The 996 working hour system (Chinese: 996工作制) is a work schedule that derives its name from its requirement that workers clock in from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, 6 days per week, resulting in employees working 12 hours per day and 72 hours per week. It is practiced illegally by some companies in China. A number of Mainland Ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system | 2,048 | 0 | 2 |
996 working hour system | reform work policies to realize the lowering of working time per worker in China (and also to curb excessive-work cultures like 996)". Without such initiatives, the dual circulation policy is doomed to fail, they argued.
Some European entrepreneurs argued that 996 is contrary to European values, that it leads to a bra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system | 523 | 1 | 2 |
COVID-19 lab leak theory | The COVID-19 lab leak theory is the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, originated from a laboratory. This claim is highly controversial. There is scientific consensus that the virus is not the result of genetic engineering. Most scientists believe it spread to human populations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory | 2,048 | 0 | 6 |
COVID-19 lab leak theory | the fact that the research at WIV was being conducted under the less stringent biosafety levels (BSL) 2 and 3, has led to speculation that SARS-CoV-2 could have escaped from the Wuhan lab. Richard Ebright said one reason that lower-containment BSL-2 laboratories are sometimes used is the cost and inconvenience of high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory | 2,048 | 1 | 6 |
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