The Vagina Monologues -- Stories Behind the Scenes

The Vagina Monologues -- Stories Behind the Scenes

<i>The Vagina Monologues</i> is a pioneering feminist drama created by the American playwright Eva Ensler. In 2003, teachers and students at the Gender Education Forum of Sun Yat-sen University in China adapted the play and added artistic interpretations of Chinese women's gender experience. The adapted play had its first performance at the Guangdong Provincial Art Museum. This documentary records the attitudes of governments across China towards the play as well as women's perceptions of the play and its connection with their personal experiences. It also highlights the current political and cultural ecology of China.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 8): Xu Youyu

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 8): Xu Youyu

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 53): Liang Xiaoyan

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 53): Liang Xiaoyan

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 29): Ni Yulan

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 29): Ni Yulan

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 42): Wang Guangze

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 42): Wang Guangze

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 15 and 16): Xia Yeliang

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 15 and 16): Xia Yeliang

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working Toward a Civil Society (Episode 19): Fu Guoyong

Working Toward a Civil Society (Episode 19): Fu Guoyong

How can China build a true civil society? Independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants since 2010.
Working Toward a Civil Society (Episode 44): Liu Qian

Working Toward a Civil Society (Episode 44): Liu Qian

How can China build a true civil society? Independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants since 2010.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 21): Zhou Shuguang

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 21): Zhou Shuguang

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 35): Wei Yingjie

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 35): Wei Yingjie

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 11): Liu Xiaoyuan

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 11): Liu Xiaoyuan

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 46): Guo Xianliang

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 46): Guo Xianliang

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 26): Yang Licai

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 26): Yang Licai

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 41): Guo Yushan

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 41): Guo Yushan

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 10): Ai Weiwei

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 10): Ai Weiwei

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 51): Hu Shigen

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 51): Hu Shigen

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Active Life

Active Life

This is a collection of essays by Cui Weiping, a professor at the Beijing Film Academy. The title, inspired by Hannah Arendt, covers a wide range of fields from poetry and movies to politics and ethics, and tells the stories of fascinating people, the construction of their inner world and external lives. These people include Hai Zi, Wang Xiaobo, Arendt, Woolf, Beauvoir, Tarkovsky, Kremer, Herbert, Havel, and many others. Behind these seemingly unrelated names, there are hints of these two interdependent spiritual dimensions: on the one hand, the construction of the external world in which we live; on the other hand, the construction of our own inner world, which cannot be neglected. This book, published by Renmin University of China Press in 2003, has had a significant impact on the development of civil society in China.
Pastor Wang Yi&#039;s Anthology: Carrying the Cross - A History of Chinese Family Churches

Pastor Wang Yi&#039;s Anthology: Carrying the Cross - A History of Chinese Family Churches

Wang Yi, of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, is a well-known Chinese intellectual who later became a pastor. The Early Rain Reformed Church that he led was one of the most famous unregistered churches in China. The church occupied the floor of an office building in Chengdu and had its own bookstore, seminary, and pre-school. It regularly had services of hundreds of people. Later, the church had internal conflicts, while at the same time Wang became more outspoken in his criticism of the government. In 2018, he criticized Xi Jinping for abolishing term limits and allowing himself to become ruler of China for life. Pastor Wang was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2019. This book is based on the recordings of Pastor Wang's classes at Early Rain in 2018. The first five chapters were reviewed by Pastor Wang himself, but he was arrested before he could complete the review of the last five chapters. The essays cover key issues that concerned Wang, including the role of the church in China as a city on the hill, the role of the Reform church in China, and the history of unregistered churches in China.
Free Zhang Zhan

Free Zhang Zhan

Zhang Zhan, born in 1983, is a Chinese lawyer and a dissident of the Communist Party system. In early February 2020, she rushed from Shanghai to Wuhan, which was under lockdown due to the COVID-19 epidemic, to conduct on-the-spot interviews and released a series of video reports on Wuhan's lockdown. More than three months later, she was arrested by Chinese police for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" and taken to Shanghai for detention. In December 2020, she was sentenced to four years in prison for picking quarrels and provoking trouble. Zhang Zhan went on hunger strike in the detention center and prison, and there were reports that he was critically ill several times. Her courage and resistance attracted the attention of the international community. The book *Free Zhang Zhan* was edited and created by Wang Jianhong, the head of the "Zhang Zhan Concern Group" on the Internet. It brings together Zhang Zhan's articles and self-media posts published on the Internet, as well as interviews of Zhang Zhan before she lost her freedom, and interviews, as well as poems and articles from outsiders supporting Zhang Zhan. The book reviews the course of Zhang Zhan's case, Zhang Zhan's struggle in prison and the repercussions it aroused at home and abroad. It was published on May 13, 2024 when Zhang Zhan was released from prison after serving her sentence. This book preserves and records the history of Wuhan's lockdown in China due to the COVID-19 epidemic. Nowadays, Zhang Zhan's articles and words of support for her have been censored and blocked in China, which makes the book even more precious.
Operation Yellow Bird

Operation Yellow Bird

After the bloody suppression of the June 4 Democracy Movement, the Chinese Communist Party went on a massive manhunt for the key figures of the movement. Some Hong Kong people organized a secret channel to help pro-democracy activists escape from the Mainland, codenamed "Operation Yellow Bird." The author of this book, Jiang Xun, is a veteran of the media and describes in detail how the "Yellow Bird Operation" took place.