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Fishburne, who is also being recognized for his work as an activist and humanitarian, will be presented with a medal during the opening show of Cultural Rhythms, scheduled for this Saturday. Students will also have an opportunity to interact with the artist during a reception and luncheon in Kirkland House earlier...
Fishburne, who is also being recognized for his work as an activist and humanitarian, will be presented with a medal during the opening show of Cultural Rhythms, currently scheduled for Feb. 24. Students will also have an opportunity to interact with the artist during a reception and luncheon in Kirkland House earlier...
...gleaming new skyscrapers, swelling middle class, dazzling preparations for the Olympics and so forth. But it is always worth getting a reality check on what underlies that rosy picture, the fact that China remains a highly repressive authoritarian state. I met recently in a small Beijing cafe with social activist Teng Biao and public-interest lawyer Li Heping, two unassuming gentlemen who are painfully well aware of the lengths the Chinese system will go to preserve itself...
...lawyers who represented blind activist Chen Guangcheng in his trial last year on what would under other circumstances be considered the bizarre charges of damaging property and attempting to organize a crowd to obstruct traffic. In fact, Chen's crime seems to have been that he embarrassed local officials in his home province of Shandong...
...colleague Hannah Beech wrote when Chen's sentence of four years and three months was announced last September, Chen is a "self-schooled legal activist [who] came to Shanghai to publicize the plight of women who had been forced to undergo abortions or sterilizations as part of the nation's family-planning campaign. China has tried for more than two decades to lower its population through its 'one-child' policy, but the coercive measures used in Shandong's Linyi region are now illegal. By publicizing abuses committed by local bureaucrats, Chen believed he could persuade higher-level officials to step...