Protest outside the Hunan provincial government compound in Changsha, 18 May 1989 (Photo credit: Andréa Worden) This essay originally appeared in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Issue 44, June/July 2019) for the feature "Tiananmen Thirty Years On." https://www.asiancha.com/wp/article/andrea-worden/ by Andréa Worden As my two-year teaching fellowship with the Yale-China Association in Changsha was winding down in the … Continue reading Changsha 1989: Of Tennis, Transcendence and Tiananmen
Beyond Beijing: 1989 in Changsha
This interview originally appeared on the website of Sinopsis, available here: https://sinopsis.cz/en/beyond-beijing-1989-in-changsha/ Thirty years ago, the CCP’s army massacred peaceful demonstrators on Tian’anmen square, putting an end to a nationwide protest movement. In this interview, Andréa Worden remembers 1989 as she experienced it in Changsha and Beijing. You were in China during the spring of 1989, why … Continue reading Beyond Beijing: 1989 in Changsha
China Deals Another Blow to the International Human Rights Framework at its UN Universal Periodic Review
This article originally appeared on the China Change website, available here: https://chinachange.org/2018/11/25/china-deals-another-blow-to-the-international-human-rights-framework-at-its-un-universal-periodic-review/ Andréa Worden, November 25, 2018 China Review — 31st Session of Universal Periodic Review, Nov. 6, 2018, Geneva. Over the past several years, the Chinese government has steadily been promoting its own version of human rights –– “human rights with Chinese characteristics”–– at the UN, and maneuvering … Continue reading China Deals Another Blow to the International Human Rights Framework at its UN Universal Periodic Review
[Andréa] Worden: Sexual assault – then and now
Originally published by the Yale Daily News (10/3/2018): https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2018/10/03/worden-sexual-assault-then-and-now/ The controversy surrounding Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s ’87 LAW ’90 nomination to the Supreme Court prompted me to dig through a long-neglected box of papers from my time at Yale in the mid-1980s. In January 1985, I arrived on campus as a transfer student and soon became … Continue reading [Andréa] Worden: Sexual assault – then and now
Xu Zhiyong, “Four Years Afar,” (Translation, 9/16/2018)
Excerpted by the New York Times in “‘Suffering and Hardship Belongs to Me’: A Voice from a Chinese Prison,” by Amy Qin (9/18/2018) The translation of "Four Years Afar" by Andréa Worden originally appeared on the China Change website, available here: https://chinachange.org/2018/09/16/four-years-afar/ Xu Zhiyong was released from prison on July 16, 2017, after serving four years for his … Continue reading Xu Zhiyong, “Four Years Afar,” (Translation, 9/16/2018)
The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America” by Beth Lew-Williams”
This book review originally appeared on the Asian Review of Books website (8/20/2018) "https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/the-chinese-must-go-violence-exclusion-and-the-making-of-the-alien-in-america-by-beth-lew-williams/" A photo labeled “A Chinese Slave Girl, Chinatown. San Francisco.” ca. 1905 Oakland Museum of California In her skillful retelling of the history of white workers’ violence against Chinese immigrants and the formulation of laws to first restrict, and then exclude, Chinese laborers from … Continue reading The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America” by Beth Lew-Williams”
“The Chilli Bean Paste Clan” by Yan Ge
First published in Asian Review of Books (8/11/2018) https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/the-chilli-bean-paste-clan-by-yan-ge/ The Chilli Bean Paste Clan, Yan Ge, Nicky Harman (trans) (Balestier, May 2018) Yan Ge’s The Chilli Bean Paste Clan should come with a warning on the cover: “contents may cause readers to break into a sweat and consume unhealthy amounts of Laoganma spicy chilli crisp.” The setting for … Continue reading “The Chilli Bean Paste Clan” by Yan Ge
China Fails in its Gambit to Use the UN NGO Committee to Silence the Society for Threatened Peoples and Uyghur Activist Dolkun Isa
Originally published by China Change. Andréa Worden, July 10, 2018 Ambassador Kelley Currie, US representative to the UN Economic & Social Council, speaks. During the most recent session of the UN’s Committee on NGOs, China attempted unsuccessfully to have the Committee withdraw the NGO consultative status of the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) in connection with its support of Dolkun Isa, a human … Continue reading China Fails in its Gambit to Use the UN NGO Committee to Silence the Society for Threatened Peoples and Uyghur Activist Dolkun Isa
With Its Latest Human Rights Council Resolution, China Continues Its Assault on the UN Human Rights Framework
April 9, 2018 This article originally appeared on the China Change website, available here: https://chinachange.org/2018/04/09/with-its-latest-human-rights-council-resolution-china-continues-its-assault-on-the-un-human-rights-framework/ Andréa Worden, 4/9/2018 Xi Jinping addressing the UN General assembly in 2015. During the past year, China, supported by authoritarian allies like Russia, Turkey and Egypt, has taken an increasingly aggressive anti-human rights posture at the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) … Continue reading With Its Latest Human Rights Council Resolution, China Continues Its Assault on the UN Human Rights Framework
Who Are the Young Women Behind the ‘#MeToo in China’ Campaign? An Organizer Explains
Xiao Meili, March 27, 2018 This translation originally appeared on China Change (3/27/2018), available here: https://chinachange.org/2018/03/27/who-are-the-young-women-behind-the-metoo-in-china-campaign-an-organizer-explains/ Zheng Churan (郑楚然) and Xiao Meili (肖美丽), right, are two Guangzhou-based feminist activists. Photo: @LetaHong January 2018 was a special month for the Chinese feminist movement. On January 1, Luo Xixi (罗茜茜) released an open letter –– using her real … Continue reading Who Are the Young Women Behind the ‘#MeToo in China’ Campaign? An Organizer Explains
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