2/ As Milan Kundera said, the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. And the Beijing authority is extremely aware of civil society’s ability to document and archive.
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1/ Under China’s autocratic regime, censorship has become commonplace. Whilst whistleblower doctors are detained for telling the truth, and critical voices on social media are suppressed, literature is permanent activism. It resists China’s attempt to rewrite the history.
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3/ Unfree Speech mentions our archival project, Decoding
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4/ China’s state mouthpieces said this documentary project was about ‘creating alternative narratives’. In this context, to write is to resist.
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5/ *Standing with Hong Kong: An Interview with Joshua Wong, authors of
#UnfreeSpeech, discuss free speech in Hong Kong, coronavirus, and the role of literature in campaigning for global democracy: https://pentransmissions.com/2020/03/31/standing-with-hong-kong-an-interview-with-joshua-wong-and-jason-y-ng/ … More about my book: http://hyperurl.co/unfreespeech 〡Show this thread
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Ah yes, America also does this so it must be OK. Whataboutism in its full glory. Do us all a favour and go away
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Ummmm......not any better at your Master’s.https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1245522358384746496 …
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Please help them, send them masks and donations. I am sure they have more than 5 Demands since your are the expert in this.https://twitter.com/dbelardomd/status/1245031918493630464 …
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