Jonathan Mirsky News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Historian Jonathan Mirsky once called Dr. Goldman “the foremost Western expert on China’s intellectual dissidents — especially writers."

When Chinese law professor Xu Zhangrun began publishing articles last year criticizing the government’s turn toward a harsher variety of authoritarianism, it seemed inevitable that he would be swiftly silenced. But then, remarkably, dozens of prominent citizens began speaking up. Some signed a petition, others wrote essays and poems in Xu’s support, and one wrote a song. To

Editor of the Observer in the 1970s and 80s who fought to retain the paper’s integrity and identity

Since the Chinese Communist Party leaders will not allow themselves to be criticized in the press or on television, critics have had to find other means to express their political grievances. Historically speaking, one of the most telling ways to make a protest known has been to bring it to Tiananmen Square, long the epicenter of political power in China. Indeed, there is an

Twenty-five years after the city passed from British to Chinese rule, its last British governor, Chris Patten, says Beijing did not keep its word.