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Zhang Yimou’s Qin Shi Huangdi Complex – Cui Weiping
Time.com published an article titled “A Chinese Movie at the Met” this week: The creators of The First Emperor were clearly intent on sharpening the film’s (already pretty clear) political stance....
View ArticleCui Weiping: My Humanity is Frozen and Numb
Professor Cui Weiping (崔卫平) teaches at the Beijing Film Academy. A literary and film critic and scholar, she is also known in Chinese intellectual circles for translating Václav Havel‘s works into...
View ArticleChinese Documentaries Show Realities Missing from Chinese Films
Duowei News journalist Wan Yizhong reports (translated by CDT): “When friends ask me to recommend some Chinese movies, I will always tell them to watch documentaries,” Beijing Film Academy professor...
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Cui Weiping (崔卫平): I Am a Grass-Mud Horse (Video added)
The “grass-mud horse (草泥马)” has now become the icon of online resistance to censorship. It seems that everywhere the “river crabs (河蟹)” go, the “grass-mud horses” grow in numbers. Professor Cui Weiping...
View ArticleCui Weiping (崔卫平)： Self-initiated and Idealistic Thinking and Action
On March 28, Chengdu-based environmentalist, writer and former editor of Literati magazine (文化人) magazine Tan Zuoren (谭作人) was detained on allegations of subversion of state power. Tan’s crime? The...
View ArticleThe Democracy Movement since 1989
Global Voices translates excerpts of presentations by intellectuals who gathered in Beijing to discuss the past twenty years of the democracy movement, posted by Oiwan Lam. The seminar started with a...
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Cui Weiping: Why Do We Need to Talk About June 4th?
During Mother’s Day weekend on May 10th, a number of intellectuals in Beijing organized a seminar discussing 20 years of the democracy movement in China. The seminar started with a moment of silence,...
View ArticleRebuilding China’s Moral Foundation by Telling the Truth About Tiananmen
I cross-posted this essay on the Huffington Post today: Rebuilding China’s Moral Foundation by Telling the Truth About Tiananmen by Xiao Qiang Twenty years ago, the world watched as Chinese people...
View ArticleCui Weiping Tweets Elite Views On Liu Xiaobo
From Global Voices: Charter 08 has been around for just over a year, reportedly gathered more than 10,000 signatures, and Liu Xiaobo, one of its founders, was sentenced to eleven years in prison on...
View ArticleChina Bans Poet from Traveling to US Conference
Literature professor Cui Weiping has been barred from leaving China to attend a conference in the U.S., AP reports: Cui Weiping had her Chinese passport, U.S. visa and airplane ticket to Philadelphia...
View ArticleBig 2010 Stories Hushed, but Not Forgotten
China Media Project’s Ying Chan summarizes the major news stories in China in 2010 and the limits on Chinese journalists’ ability to reflect on the news: The first hints of trouble for news...
View ArticleNetizen Voices: Blasting the People’s Daily
A July 31 People’s Daily overseas edition editorial simultaneously called for internal reform and warned against U.S. efforts to undermine China from the grassroots. Netizens have latched on to this...
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Netizen Voices: Power Cut at Indie Film Fest
It was a mere 30 minutes into the opening screening of the 9th annual Beijing Film Festival when the power cut off. Last year’s festival was also shut down by local authorities. Forced into private...
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Person of the Week: Cui Weiping
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of public intellectuals, cartoonists, human rights activists, and other people pushing for change in China. The...
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