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Women Writing Under Surveillance in China

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

From PEN America:
Five months exactly before the opening of the Beijing Olympics on August 8, International PEN is marking International Women’s Day on March 8 by celebrating the work of three women writers under threat in China: Zeng Jinyan, Tsering Woeser and Li Jianhong. While not actually detained, they are among the many lesser-known dissidents [...]

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