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D. T. is a Hong Kong-based researcher ment of the Communist Party to an in May 2006 for “subversion of state on culture and politics in China . overseas Chinese democracy site. power,” after posting articles on over - seas democracy websites. Du Gao was formerly a professor and Tenzin Tsundue is a Tibetan activist, the editor-in-chief of China Drama essayist, and poet. He is currently the Press [Qian Zhongguo Xiju general secretary of the Friends of TRANSLATORS Chubanshe ]. Tibet (India). Isle Arthur is a law research fellow . Aaron Gray is a researcher at the Tie Liu is the pen name of a veteran He is a commentator on legal affairs Uyghur Human Rights Project . He has activist and writer in Beijing. He for - and international relations. a degree in International Studies and merly worked for the Chengdu Daily . spent four years studying and teaching Kevin Carrico is a graduate student in the PRC, including in the Xinjiang Uiles is the son of political prisoner in anthropology at Cornell University. Uyghur Autonomous Region . Hada, who is currently serving a 15- He can be reached at kevinjoecar - year sentence . Uiles has been harassed [email protected] . Guan Zhonghe , 75, served 23 years in and detained in relation to his and a Reeducation-Through-Labor camp Hada’s activism . Paul Frank translates from Chinese, after he was labeled a “Rightist” in German, and French. He lives in 1957. He has written many articles Wang Youqin , a senior lecturer in the Switzerland and can be reached at related to democracy and the Anti- department of East Asian Language [email protected] . Rightist Movement. and Civilization at the University of Chicago, developed a website com - J. Latourelle is a California-based Hu Jia is a prominent Chinese envi - memorating victims of the Cultural translator and writer who can be ronmental and HIV/AIDS activist. He Revolution. It is available at www.chi - reached at [email protected] . has served as the executive director of nese-memorial.org . the AIZHI Institute of Health Educa - Annie Knibb is a translator and editor tion, and is one of the founders of the Woeser is a well-known Tibetan based in Hong Kong. AIDS NGO Loving Source. writer, currently based in Beijing. She lost her job at the Tibetan Cultural Paul Mooney is a freelance journalist Liu Xiaobo is an outspoken scholar Association because of her writings on who has worked in Asia since 1985. and writer. As a result of his activism, Tibetan culture and the Dalai Lama. Currently a resident of Beijing, he he is subjected to periodic house contributes to many major interna - arrest and monitoring in Beijing. Yan Jiawei, 70, is a Chengdu native, tional publications. He can be reached and originally worked in oil . In 1957, at [email protected] . Jonathan Mirsky lived in Hong Kong he was labeled a “Rightist” and “coun - continuously from 1993 to 1997, as terrevolutionary,” and served 15 years Stacy Mosher is a freelance translator East Asia Editor of The Times (Lon - in a Reform-Through-Labor camp. based in New York. She can be reached don). He is currently based in His essays have been published in at [email protected]. London. numerous magazines.

Ouyang Xiaorong is an Internet Yang Tianjiao is the 10-year old essayist and poet, and is a member of daughter of political activist Yang Independent Chinese PEN. Maodong (Guo Feixiong).

Shi Tao is a Chinese journalist, writer, Yang Tianshui is the pen name of and poet. He is currently serving a 10- freelance writer Yang Tongyan. He was year sentence for releasing a docu - sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment

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