Yan Xiaoling, Legal Questions, and Reporting Injustice
For some time now, lawyer and blogger Liu Xiaoyuan has been following the case of three netizens (You Jingyou, Fan Yanqiong, and Wu Huaying) accused of framing/falsifying information because they...
View Article"Hillary Talks About the Problem of the Chinese Internet, China Unhappy"
The following is an original translation of a post by lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan. Ironically, the post was quickly deleted from his blog (see the delete notification he got here), but the essay has been...
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The Curious Case of Wang Yahui
Readers of ESWN may already be familiar with the name Wang Yahui, perhaps the first man ever to have been killed by a glass of water. The story in brief as translated by ESWN: Wang's Grief-stricken...
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The Zhuanghe Kneeling Protest Incident
Liu Xiaoyuan’s blog recently described two instances of citizens kneeling before officials, asking for change. The first was “a woman who kneeled before the Municipal Party Committee Secretary of...
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The More Things Change on the Chinese Internet…
…the more they stay the same. This has been an interesting week for the internet in China. First came the news — not surprising to anyone, probably — that China’s internet user base continues to grow,...
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Liu Xiaoyuan on Residential Surveillance and its Pitfalls
In light of the ongoing disappearances and reappearances of lawyers, intellectuals and activists the legality [or lack thereof] of house arrest repeatedly came up in the news coverage, although not...
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