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THIS ISSUE’S WRITERS

A.E. Clark is a friend of HRIC. Li Miao Lovett is a freelance journalist who has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, Sierra Club Planet, the environ - Donghai Yixiao (Xu Zhangfa) is a prolific poet and essayist mental news service Planet’s Voice and local public radio. based in Hangzhou. Mo Shaoping is one of China’s most prominent rights He Qinglian, an economist and author of China’s Pitfall defence lawyers. He is based in Beijing. and Media Control in China , is a senior researcher in resi - dence with HRIC. Ouyang Xiaorong, trained as an engineer, is a young poet based in Kunming. Sharon K. Hom is the executive director of HRIC and pro - fessor of law, emerita, CUNY School of Law. Qi Yanchen is an economist based in Hubei Province. In 2000 he was sentenced to four years in prison on charges of Hu Ping is chief editor of the New York-based Chinese-lan - subversion for articles he wrote that were posted on the guage monthly Beijing Spring , and is a member of the Internet. board of directors of HRIC. Shao Yangxiang, a prominent poet and essayist, was Le Shangjia is a journalist based in Shanghai. labeled a rightist in 1957 . He is currently the director of the Chinese Writers Association. Margaret K. Lewis is a research fellow at New York Univer - sity School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute, where she Tenzin Tsundue is a Tibetan poet and the general secretary focuses on criminal justice issues in China. of the Friends of Tibet (India).

Li Guiren was editor-in-chief of the Hua Yue Literature and Clare Turnbull is a research associate with the Manchester- Art Publishing House in Shaanxi until he was imprisoned for based Omega Research Foundation, an organization focus - trying to organize a protest after the June 4th crackdown. ing on human rights, torture and the arms trade.

Li Jianhong, based in Shanghai, writes about China’s disad - Wang Guangze was dismissed as a reporter for the 21 st Cen - vantaged. She was detained briefly in 2006 while on hunger tury Business Herald in Guangdong Province after he gave a strike protesting the harassment of rights defenders. speech in the U.S. on Chinese politics and the Internet in November 2004. He now lives in Beijing. Li Pu is former deputy head of the China’s official Xinhua News Agency. He was one of only two directorate-level offi - Wang Jianxun is a former editor of the Worker’s Press. He cials who openly supported the 1989 Democracy Movement. contributed to a biography of Hu Yaobang published in Hong Kong in 2005, which mainland authorities attempted Liu Zili is a writer based in Beijing. to suppress.

Liu Xiaobo is a dissident intellectual based in Beijing. He Wei Liu, born in China in 1970, came to the U.S. in 1999 was a key participant in the protests at Tiananmen Square and obtained two M.A. degrees in English. He works as a in 1989. freelance writer and translator.

6 | CONTRIBUTORS Xiao Qiang is the founder and chief editor of the Berkeley- THIS ISSUE’S TRANSLATORS based China Digital Times news portal. He is the former executive director of Human Rights in China. Caitlin Anderson is a doctoral candidate in pre-modern Chinese literature at Princeton University. Yang Jianli came to the U.S. after participating in the 1989 Democracy Movement, but was imprisoned in China in Kevin Carrico is an incoming graduate student in anthro - 2002 after he returned using a friend’s passport. He was pology at Cornell University. He can be reached at kevin released from prison on April 27, 2007. [email protected] .

Yuan Hongbing, a native of Inner Mongolia, headed up Paul Frank translates from Chinese, German and French. university law programs in China until his political writ - He lives in Switzerland and can be reached at paulfrank@ ings led him to obtain political asylum in Australia in 2004. post.harvard.edu .

Zhao Fei is a poet who teaches at a secondary school in Nancy Li, based in Paris, provides translation and interpre - Xuecheng City, Shandong Province. tation services in Chinese, English and French for interna - tional organizations and for TV networks such as the BBC Bonny Ling, Carol Wang, Cliff Ip, Feng Congde, Tina and Yorkshire Television. Nguyen, Elisabeth Wickeri, Si-si Liu, Cliff Ip and Wing Lam are staff of Human Rights in China. Danielle Flam, Wang Ai is a New York-based writer and translator, and Dominic Yau and Vivian Shen were interns with HRIC. treasurer of the Independent Chinese PEN Center.

Our thanks also to three other translators who preferred not to be credited by name.

DIRECTORS

Co-chairs Christine Loh, Andrew J. Nathan Executive Director Sharon Hom Secretary Cheuk Kwan Treasurer R. Scott Greathead Chair Emeritus Robert L. Bernstein

William Bernstein Ian Buruma Cheng Xiaonong Han Dongfang Hu Ping Li Jinjin Li Lu Liu Qing Robin Munro James Ottaway, Jr. Megan Wiese

Honorary Directors Joseph L. Birman Marie Holzman Robert G. James Joel Lebowitz Torbjörn Lodén Paul Martin Nina Rosenwald Ruan Ming Anne Thurston

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