Who Are the Young Women Behind the ‘#MeToo in China’ Campaign? An Organizer Explains

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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

As the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders Turns 20, China Wages a Multi-Pronged Attack on Rights Defenders

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This article originally appeared on the China Change website, available here: https://chinachange.org/2018/03/14/as-the-un-declaration-on-human-rights-defenders-turns-20-china-wages-a-multi-pronged-attack-on-rights-defenders By Andréa Worden, March 14, 2018 “Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to promote and to strive for the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms.” –– UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders The Chinese government attacks human rights defenders … Continue reading As the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders Turns 20, China Wages a Multi-Pronged Attack on Rights Defenders

Twenty-Eight Years After – An Interview With Wang Dan

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Translation by Andréa Worden, which appeared on the China Change website on 10/25/2017: https://chinachange.org/2017/10/25/twenty-eight-years-after-an-interview-with-wang-dan/ Yaxue Cao sat down with Wang Dan (王丹) on September 27 and talked about his past 28 years since 1989: the 1990s, Harvard, teaching in Taiwan, China’s younger generation, his idea for a think tank, his books, assessment of current China, … Continue reading Twenty-Eight Years After – An Interview With Wang Dan

China Pushes ‘Human Rights With Chinese Characteristics’ at the UN

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This article originally appeared on the China Change website, available here: https://chinachange.org/2017/10/09/china-pushes-human-rights-with-chinese-characteristics-at-the-un/ Andréa Worden, October 9, 2017 Xi Jinping in Geneva, January 2017. Photo: UN Geneva In January 2017, after his success at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Xi Jinping traveled to Geneva to deliver a rare, invitation-only speech at the UN’s Palais des Nations. Most of the … Continue reading China Pushes ‘Human Rights With Chinese Characteristics’ at the UN

Despair and Hope: A Changsha Chronicle

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My firsthand account of the events of 1989 in China as they unfolded in Changsha, Hunan, first appeared online on Long Bow Group's Tiananmen Square/ Gate of Heavenly Peace website: http://www.tsquare.tv/links/WORDEN.html Originally published in 1991 in The Pro-Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces, edited by Jonathan Unger (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1991). … Continue reading Despair and Hope: A Changsha Chronicle

Gender and Inequality in Urban China Today (Conference agenda, Yale 1990)

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Read pdf NB: During my first year of graduate school at Stanford, and about seven months after the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, I was invited to participate in this symposium at Yale on gender inequality in China by one of my professors and mentors at Yale, Professor Deborah Davis. I spoke on women's participation in the … Continue reading Gender and Inequality in Urban China Today (Conference agenda, Yale 1990)