Legal scholar Xu Zhangrun, formerly of the prestigious Tsinghua University, has been a pariah in Beijing since he wrote a takedown of Xi Jinping four years ago. In this work of creative nonfiction introduced and translated by Geremie R. Barmé, Xu takes us into his new life as a social outcast.
A translation by Sinologist Geremie R. Barmé of a new essay from persecuted law professor Xu Zhangrun, who is the object of an extraordinary hi-tech surveillance campaign.
After an essay critical of Chinese leader Xi Jinping circulated online, its author — Party member and former real estate executive Ren Zhiqiang — has been sentenced to 18 years behind bars on corruption charges.
Tsinghua University law professor Xu Zhangrun, one of the most prominent critics within China of the leadership of Xi Jinping, has been detained in Beijing. Two other critics, Peking University legal scholar Xu Zhiyong and property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang, have been missing for months.
A picture of a Tsinghua University Marxism department meeting from 2017. The suspension and investigation of Tsinghua University Professor of Law and liberal intellectual, Xǔ Zhāngrùn...
In 2012, Deng Yuwen 邓聿文, commentary writer and deputy editor of the Central Party School’s journal, Study Times, published a three-part essay titled “The Political Legacy of...