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Ma Jian

Ma Jian's most recent novel is Beijing Coma.

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Guilty Democrats

Ma Jian Series: Human Rights

2010-01-25

The Chinese government's imprisonment of the writer Liu Xiaobo is a blatant attempt to criminalize democratic thought, and the real criminal in this case is, of course, the Chinese state. But the world’s democracies are guilty as well, for they appear to have lost their willingness to stand up for their beliefs.... read

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China’s Slave Power

Ma Jian Series: China Stands Up

2007-06-26

Revelations of slave labor, including children abducted from around the country, in a government-run brick plant in Hongdong County, have cast much needed light on an economy and society that is rotten to the core. Indeed, slavery is endemic in the country's brick plants and coalmines, abetteed by the police and state authorities.... read

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The Revolution Will Not Be Memorialized

Ma Jian Series: The Worldly Philosophers

2006-05-31

Forty years ago Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution. The Propaganda Department of China’s ruling Communists have now issued an order banning any kind of reviews or commemoration of this disaster as part of the Party’s bid to make the Chinese forget about that lost decade. ... read

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China’s Internet Dictatorship

Ma Jian Series: Human Rights

2005-05-16

Eleven years after its initial connection to the World Wide Web (WWW), China’s access to the Internet is still guarded by firewalls, embedded in its proxy servers, which have proven to be more practical and impenetrable than the Berlin Wall. Moreover, an increase in the demand for broadband connection has triggered the launch of an $800 million “Jin Dun (Golden Shield) Project,” an automatic digital system of public policing that will help prolong Communist rule by denying China’s people the right to information. ... read

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