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Resource List SOS! English http://www.thzsr.addr.com/prison1.htm Describing itself as a Web site providing Lists of Falungong practitioners arrested perspectives and analysis for those who COMPILED BY STACY MOSHER, and imprisoned for their beliefs. serve China, ChinaSource focuses largely WITH JONATHAN GREENBLATT on Christianity in China, with a secondary focus on minority groups. Headed by Dr. Christians Samuel Ling, ChinaSource publishes books RELIGION IN CHINA and a printed journal, but also posts a Cardinal Kung Foundation number of recent essays on line. http://www.cardinalkungfoundation.org/ Falungong English Chinese Academy of Social Sciences The Cardinal Kung Foundation was Institute of World Religions Clear Harmony Europe established in honor of Ignatius Kung http://www.cass.net.cn/chinese/y_03/y_03_ http://www.clearharmony.net Pin-mei, a Roman Catholic Cardinal 33sjzjyjs.html Multilingual imprisoned in 1955 and released under Chinese The Falungong's European-based Web site house arrest in 1985. Kung and his The Beijing-based IWR describes itself as emphasizes the group's activities in nephew came to the U.S. in 1987 and set- China's only world-class institute devoted Europe, but also includes news of activities tled in Stamford, Connecticut, where Kung to the study of religion. The Web site pro- in the U.S. and China. died in March 2000 at the age of 98. vides considerable information about the Kung's nephew, Joseph Kung, heads up the Institute and its programs, but no essays. Epoch Times foundation, which works to support http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/nf316.htm Catholics in China and maintain awareness Christian China Net Chinese of persecution. The Web site maintains a http://www.21sz.org/Common/Admin/showFP The Web site of a Falungong-affiliated news- regularly updated list of imprisoned and _auto.jsp?Pid=1&Version=1&Charset=gb2312 paper based in the U.S., Epoch Times aims persecuted Chinese Catholics. Chinese to form a bridge between overseas Chinese This Web site seems to be produced in HK and Western society, and emphasizes news China Catholic for a mainland audience. It provides essays relating to democracy and human rights. http://www.chinacatholic.org/ on religious topics, discussion boards and Chinese and English other resources. Falun Dafa Australia This Hubei-based Web site provides infor- http://www.falunau.org/index.jsp mation on activities of both the official and Church in Shanghai English and Chinese unofficial Catholic church in China. http://www.church-in-sha.org/ The Web site of Falungong practitioners in Chinese Australia, emphasizing the group's China for Jesus The official Web site of the Shanghai activities locally as well as overseas. http://www.chinaforjesus.com/ Diocese of the Chinese Catholic church. Chinese and English Falun Dafa Information Center The Web site states that its content is writ- Committee for Investigation on http://www.faluninfo.net/ ten and translated by mainland Christians. Persecution of Religion in China Multilingual Apart from essays drawn from ChinaSource, http://china21.org/ The Web site provides news and informa- most of the information on the Web site Chinese and English tion about the Falungong worldwide, describes the threat to traditional Christians The New York-based Committee, headed by including deaths in custody and campaigns posed by the Eastern Lightning Cult. Li Shixiong, publishes reports on religious on behalf of prisoners. The Web site pub- freedom in China (with an emphasis on lishes a weekly newsletter, Falun Gong China House Church Christians) and posts daily updates on Today, detailing cases of persecution, and http://www.chinahousechurch.org/main.htm individual instances of persecution (the also posts reports on Falungong's efforts Chinese and English Chinese Web site is kept more up-to-date to transmit Falungong advocacy through This Web site operated by David Zhang than the English Web site). China's state-run broadcasting media. posts essays on topics relating to The CIPRC posted photos on the Peacehall Christianity in China, including the official Web site: Friends of Falun Gong church and Christian intellectuals. It also http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2 http://www.fofg.org/index.php provides photos of house church worship 003/03/200303180157.shtml, purporting English and Chinese services and a selection of the Songs of to depict torture being inflicted on Christians Sponsored by U.S.-based supporters of the the Canaanites, composed by the "Fanny in a police station in Yuzhou, Henan Province. Falungong, this Web site provides news, Crosby of China," Lu Xiaomin. According to the accompanying article, the campaign information and other resources photos were taken by relatives of policemen relating to the group to increase awareness ChinaSource who are secret Christians, and who of persecution in China. http://www.chsource.org/Home.htm obtained permission to take photos around to modern China. to modern intellectuals abouttherelevance ofreligion many essays by ChineseChristian The Institute's guest professors haveThe Institute'sguest professors dialogue withotherculturesandreligions. Chinese cultureandthedevelopment of in contextualization ofChristiantheology Hong Kong-based ISCSpromotesthe Chinese andEnglish http://www.iscs.org.hk/ Institute ofSinoChristianStudies http://godoor.net/whjdt/ Faith ( e-magazine, Web sites.TheWeb siteincludesan booksandlinkstoother relevant essays, including relating toChristianityinChina, butconsiderableinformation about itself, This Web siteprovides littleinformation Chinese http://www.godoor.com/default.asp Godoor and instructors. as well oncourses asbasicinformation essays onJudeo-Christianreligioustopics, The Web siteincludesanumberofscholarly Chinese http://www.bigyi.net/ Philosophy &Religion of Department Fudan University Summer OlympicGames. a campaigntorevoke the2008Beijing China. Theorganizationhasalsoinitiated behalf ofCatholicpriestsincustody grassrootscampaignon international Free theFathers isanAtlanta-based English http://www.ftf.org/ Free theFathers related materials. Web siteprovides testimoniesandother Wu's LaogaiResearchFoundation. The freedom ofreligionaffiliatedwithHarry FCFC isanonprofitadvocacygroupfor English http://www.freechurchforchina.org/index.html Free ChurchforChina totake suchpictures. trying least 10peoplehave while beenarrested worthy. TheCIPRC'sLiShixiongsays at note- lence were notconsideredparticularly whereepisodesofvio- the policestation, on CulturalChristianity, Xinyang whichincludes , ,andasubsite ), nation forTibetans andtoprotecttheir to promotehumanrightsandself-determi- theICTworks D.C., Based inWashington, andTibetan Chinese, English, http://www.savetibet.org/ CampaignforTibet International detention centers. onthemain andinformation persecution, whodiedasaresultofofficial prisoners profiles ofexistingpoliticalprisoners, inexile.TheWebprisoners siteprovides Tibetanpolitical to assistingformer The Gu-Chum-Summovement isdedicated English main.html http://www.guchusum.org/guchusum/index- Gu-Chum-Sum human rightsinTibet. campaigns andexhibitionsrelatingto provides oninternational information London-basedFTC Founded in1988, English http://www.freetibet.org Free Campaign Tibet ofpersecution. andotherforms on arrests Tibet's nativecultureandreligionaswell as following Web on sitesprovide information Tibetan Buddhistmonksandnuns.The are Most ofTibet'spoliticalprisoners Tibet to China'sreligions. WebFront Work pagerelating Department United The ChineseCommunistParty's ex.htm http://www.zytzb.org.cn/zytzbwz/religion/ind United Front relevant Web sites. The Web siteincludeslinkstomany other Diocese oftheChineseCatholicchurch. The officialWeb siteoftheLiaoning Chinese http://lncatholic.org/ Liaoning Catholic arly essaysarly onitsWeb site. of Theology as well as The Institutepublishesanumberofbooks, prominent ofChina'sCulturalChristians. oneofthemost included LiuXiaofeng, Logos &Pneuma:ChineseJournal andpostsaselectionofschol- , member organizations. mainly onITSNcampaignsandlinksto other humanrights.TheWeb sitefocuses and people's righttoself-determination theTibetan and toactivelysupporting to endinghumanrightsviolationsinTibet dedicated AustralasiaandEurope, Asia, theAmericas, organizations fromAfrica, ofTibet-related non-governmental network a Network, TibetSupport International The Web siteissponsoredby the English http://www.tibet.org/ Online Tibet in Tibet. onpoliticalandsocialconditions information London-based TINprovides news and English andChinese http://www.tibetinfo.net/ Network Information Tibet and otherhumanrightsissuesinTibet. provides onpoliticalprisoners information theTCHRD India, Based inDharamsala, English http://www.tchrd.org/ Democracy CentreforHumanRightsand Tibetan This Web siteisproduced by theKaiyuan Chinese andEnglish http://www.kyaz.com/islam/index.asp Kyaz human rightssituationinXinjiang. site providesontheculture and information theETICWeb Germany, Based inNeurnberg, Chinese andArabic English, http://www.uygur.org/ East Turkestan Center Information East Turkestan: toas alsoreferred Xinjiang, in Muslims ofChinese sites addresstheconcerns separatist activities.ThefollowingWeb downs arelaunchedonallegationsof wheremany andcrack- arrests regions, difficult toseparateinChina'sMuslim religionandpoliticsare As withTibet, Muslims media resources. andmulti- positionpapers provides news, culture andenvironment. 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REGULAR FEATURES 89 CHINA RIGHTS FORUM NO.4, 2003 Institute of Arabic in Kaiyuan City, Yunnan, Angeles headquarters of YiGuanDao, which officials in Britain and elsewhere on behalf which is devoted to meeting the education- is banned in China. The Web sites provides of persecuted Christians. The Web site al needs of Chinese Muslims. Kaiyuan is information on the group's teachings and includes a report on the group's fact-find- the only one of China's Arabic institutes links to other Web sites (English and ing visit to China in December 2000. and mosque schools to have its own Web Chinese) of the group's main branches. site and campus newspaper. Human Rights Watch HRW has in recent years published the Uyghur American Association International Organizations following reports and briefings related to http://www.uyghuramerican.org/ religious freedom in China: English and Arabic The following organizations monitor reli- A report on the Chinese government's Based in McLean, Virginia, the UAA works gious persecution worldwide, but include campaign against the Falungong: to promote human rights and substantial reports on China. http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/china/ self-determination for Uyghurs and to Amnesty International A background briefing on Xinjiang after protect their culture and environment. The www.amnesty.org September 11: Web site provides NGO, government and English http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/asia/chin press reports on human rights in Xinjiang. AI's report on China's crackdown on a-bck1017.htm Falungong and other "heretical organiza- Testimony before the U.S. Commission on Uyghur Human Rights Coalition tions," and a list of imprisoned Falungong International Religious Freedom: http://www.uyghurs.org/default-old.htm practitioners, can be accessed at http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/geneva/chin English http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGA a-religion-state.htm UHRC is dedicated to educating SA170112000?open&of=ENG-CHN Reports on state control of religion: Americans, particularly university students, and http://www.hrw.org/reports/1997/china1/ about the Chinese government's human http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGA http://www.hrw.org/summaries/s.china9512 rights violations against the Uyghur people SA170122000?open&of=ENG-CHN. .html of Xinjiang. The Web site includes testimonies of abuse and links to relevant Center for Religious Freedom International Christian Concern reports by NGOs and the U.S. government. http://www.freedomhouse.org/religion/ http://www.persecution.org/Countries/china. English html A division of Washington, D.C.-based English Other Chinese religious organizations Freedom House, the Center for Religious Based in Washington, D.C., the interde- Freedom fronts a national campaign nominational ICC supports the training China Buddhism Information Net defending persecuted Christians of in-country evangelists and lobbies the http://www.buddhism.com.cn/ worldwide. In China it has also advocated U.S. government on behalf of persecuted Chinese on behalf of persecuted followers of the Christians the world over. It includes An officially sanctioned Web site produced Falungong. China in its list of top ten countries by the Beijing-based Chinese Buddhist persecuting Christians. Association and related organizations. Christian Persecution Info http://www.christianpersecution.info/ Religion News Blog Eastern Lightening (Church of Almighty English www.religionnewsblog.com God) Produced by Baltimore-based Worthy English The organization operates its own bilingual Ministries, Christian Persecution Info is a Religion News Blog (RNB) highlights up-to- Web sites out of Bayside, NY: news journal detailing persecution of date news items and other resources http://godword.org/ Christians worldwide. The Web site about cults, religious sects, alternative http://voicefromthethrone.org/home.php?co includes articles relating instances of religions and related issues. It is published mfromhome persecution in China. Among them is an by Apologetics Index (http://www.apologetic- Some Christian Web sites also provide article suggesting that Chinese authorities sindex.org/), a small organization in information on this group, which many may be justified in cracking down on Amsterdam that provides research Christians consider a harmful cult: certain cults (such as Eastern Lightening) resources on cults, sects, other religious www.csw.org.uk/chinacult.htm that engage in harmful activities against movements, doctrines and practices. The http://www.religioscope.com/notes/2002/0 believers of other religious groups Web log and the index can both be 90_lightning.htm (http://www.worthynews.com/news-features- searched for news articles and other infor- 3/china-anti-cult.html). mation relating to specific religious groups, YiGuanDao (I-Kuan Tao) - including several based in China. http://www.yiguandao.com/main.htm Christian Solidarity Worldwide http://www.with.org/ http://www.csw.org.uk U.S. Commission on International English and Chinese English Religious Freedom The Web sites are hosted by the Los A U.K.-based organization that lobbies http://www.uscirf.gov The Chinaedition ofYahoo provides a Chinese Yahoo General of research. are justafew thatcameupinthecourse inChina.Thefollowing arts contemporary There aremany Web sitesdevoted to CHINESE ART prison inChinaandothercountries. as alistofChristiansbelieved tobein aswell printed updatesandnewsletters, worldwide. 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REGULAR FEATURES 91 CHINA RIGHTS FORUM NO.4, 2003 focus is on Taiwan, news on exhibitions, English New Chinese Literature auctions and other events on the mainland This Shanghai gallery features artists pri- http://www.china-novel.com/ and elsewhere in Asia is also included. marily born in the 60s and 70s. It offers Chinese artist biographies and portfolios. This is an online forum for postings of new Gepark Magazine Chinese fiction. The Web site also posts http://www.gepark.net/ Courtyard Gallery, Beijing literary news (Chinese and overseas) and Chinese http://www.courtyard-gallery.com includes literary discussion boards and This graphic savvy online magazine focuses English links to other Web sites. on arts, literature, music and film. Gepark Established in Beijing in 1996, the also provides chatrooms for readers to Courtyard Gallery exhibits works by the Gao Nanjing Comment post and respond to works of short prose Brothers and many other contemporary http://www.njpinglun.com/ and poetry. The content and design Chinese artists, and provides information Chinese suggest a youthful constituency. on exhibitions by these artists overseas. This Web site highlights works by predominantly youthful Nanjing writers and local The Long March Project Red Gate Gallery literary news. The literary offerings are (http://www.longmarchfoundation.org/eng- http://www.asiasource.org/links/countlinks.c not frequently updated, but the chatrooms lish/homepage.htm) fm?LinkID=20821 are well-populated and current. The Web Chinese and English English and Chinese site also provides many links to other This curatorial project, organized by the The Red Gate Gallery, founded in Beijing Web sites. New York-based Long March Foundation in 1991 by Australian Brian Wallace, and Beijing-based 25000 Cultural specializes in contemporary Chinese art Olive Tree Transmission Center, aims to bring by 22 artists from across China. Works http://www.wenxue.com/ contemporary Chinese and international include oil paintings, mixed media and Chinese art to communities along the route of Mao collage, Chinese ink paintings, installa- The Web site of a Chinese literary monthly Zedong's historic Long March that would tions, various forms of printmaking, established in 1995. otherwise lack exposure and access to performance and sculpture. such cultural events. Guan Yuda, the art Poemlife critic interviewed in this issue of CRF, is Shanghart http://www.poemlife.net/index.asp involved in the project. Apart from http://www.shanghart.com/home.htm Chinese describing the project, the Web site pro- English and Chinese, some French Established in February 2000, this Web vides a record of exhibitions and related A large representation of avant-garde site claims to be China's first independent events already held, and schedules of Chinese art and related essays from a poetry Web site. It publishes poems and upcoming events. major Shanghai gallery. related essays by writers based in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas. Poemlife publishes a monthly Galleries Literature and Poetry printed journal, and the Web site also includes a children's poetry E-magazine. Art Scene China Jintian (Today) http://www.artscenechina.com/index.html http://jintian.net/ Tamen Literature Network English Chinese and some English http://www.tamen.net/main/ This Shanghai-based gallery features Jintian was originally published in 1978 for Chinese portfolios of more than 20 Chinese artists, two years until it was suppressed in 1980. This Web site presents news, fiction and with artists' statements explaining the Resurrected by Chinese émigrés in Sweden essays relating to China's literary scene. sources of their inspiration and motivation. in 1990, the magazine is now published Articles by important art critics are also quarterly and accepts submissions from Tropic of Cancer (BeiHuiGuiXian) available for further analyses. Art Scene Chinese writers around the globe. http://www.tcpoetry.com/home/default.asp China is the first mainland art gallery Chinese selected to participate in Art Chicago. The La Jeunesse A Web site featuring poetry, music, photog- gallery also sponsors a related Web site, http://wenxue.newyouth.beida-online.com/ raphy and film criticism. Discussions of New Chinese Arts, http://www.newchine Chinese Western works and thinkers are also seart.com/, which showcases modern A Web site affiliated with Peking University, included, along with philosophical essays Chinese paintings, photos, sculptures, La Jeunesse features famous contempo- by Liu Xiaofeng and historian Zhu Xueqin. prints, woodcuts and installations by rary Chinese poets and posts news and The site provides many links to other contemporary artists. essays relating to literature in China and relevant Web sites. abroad. It also touches on popular music Aura Gallery and film. http://www.aura-art.com/index.htm