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Home > 12/3/09

Human Rights Book Fair
  December 3, 2009 | Fordham Law School | NYC

Co-sponsored by Human Rights in China and the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice. Participating organizations include PEN American Center, the Independent Chinese PEN Center, Freedom House, Human Rights Watch, International Campaign for Tibet, the Laogai Research Foundation, Qingxiang Press, Students for a Free Tibet, and the Uyghur American Organization.

The Human Rights Book Fair focuses on the freedom to write in China, and features writings that have been banned and censored by the Chinese government, many written by PEN colleagues from China, Tibet, and the Uighur Autonomous Region.

PEN Members read from these banned works, along with a panel discussion with Larry Siems, Director of PEN's Freedom to Write and International Programs.

     

AUDIO & MANUSCRIPTS

   
     
Martin Flaherty and Sharon Hom introduce the event   Remarks and reading from Egg on Mao by Denise Chong
     
Huang Xiang and Karen Swenson read “Listening to Mountains from behind Iron Bars” and “Solitary Confinement”   Louis Nevaer reads a 2008 Letter to PEN by Xinna, wife of Hada
     
Vivian Demuth reads from “How Big a Character is ‘Xin’” by Hu Shigen   Catherine Porter reads from Tombstone by Yang Jisheng
     
Minda Aloff reads “This year, No Losar” by Chad med sha and “Thus, We Vanish!” by an anonymous writer   Sharon Olinka reads from Dragon Fighter: One Woman’s Epic Struggle for Peace with China by Rebiya Kadeer
     
Anna Kushner reads from Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min   Harry Wu reads from Laogai: The Machinery of Repression in China
     
Remarks by Robert Bernstein   Remarks by Ian Buruma
     
David Auburn reads from The Courage to Stand Alone by Wei Jingsheng   Meena Alexander reads from Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
     
Maureen Howard reads from A Higher Kind of Loyalty by Liu Binyan   Katie Fishman reads “My Teacher, My Enemy” by Liao Yiwu
     
Michael Scammel reads from A China More Just by Gao Zhisheng   Larry Siems reads from The Tiananmen Papers by Zhang Liang, Andrew Nathan, and Perry Link
     
Ian McMahan reads from The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Li Zhisui   Panel discussion with Larry Siems, Minky Worden, Tenzin Dorjee, and Huang Wen; moderated by Sharon Hom
     
Daniel Meltzer reads from Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of Chinas Peasants by Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao    

 


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