Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC) is a nongovernmental, nonprofit and nonpartisan organization beyond borders based on free association of those who write, edit, translate, research and publish literature work in Chinese and dedicated to freedom of expression for the workers in Chinese language and literature, including writers, journalists, translators, scholars and publishers over the world. ICPC is a member organization of International PEN, the global association of writers dedicated to freedom of expression and the defence of writers suffering governmental repression. Through the worldwide PEN network and its own membership base in China and abroad, ICPC is able to mobilize international attention to the plight of writers and editors within China attempting to write and publish with a spirit of independence and integrity, regardless of their political views, ideological standpoint or religious beliefs. This Volume has some peoms and essays from Xiaobo Liu and others.

CONTENTS No. 13 (Spring 2013) 3 Opening Speech for AwardCeremony(by Tienchi Martin-Liao) 5 Exposing Historical Truth (by Biao CHEN) 7 Awardee's Statementon Freedom to Write Award(by YANG Xianhui) 9 Acting with Documentation (by JIANG Danwen) 10 Speech by Presenter of Lin Zhao Memorial Award(by Sarah HOFFMAN) 12 Tenacity and Courage Regardless of Repeated Imprisonments (by Yu ZHANG) 14 Speech by Presenter of Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award (by Marian FRASER) 17 Awardee's Statementon Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award (by QIN Yongmin) 20 Closing Remarks for Award Ceremony (by Patrick Poon) 21 ICPCComments on Human Rights Concerning China’s Universal Periodic Review 22 No. 14 (Summer 2013) 25 Sixty-four Years of Literary Inquisition Surpasses Two Millennia. 27 Wang Shiwei Dismembered on CPC Anniversary. 32 Hu FengImprisoned for a Petition to Mao. 37 Lin ZhaoAlone Dispatched to Execution Site. 45 Wu HanBrought Down for Historical Insinuation. 51 Wei JingshengImprisoned for Warning about Deng. 56 HadaJailed over Self-determination. 63 Yasin Chargedof Wild Pigeon’s Separatism.. 66 Liu XiaoboWinning a Prize with No Enemies 68 Afterword: Shocking Stories of Life and Death(by Tienchi Martin-Liao) 77 No. 15 (Autumn 2013) 80 Shen CongwenRetires His Pen on New Year’s Eve. 82 Xiao JunAccused of Being Anti-Soviet 96 Lin XilingHandpicked as an Ultra-Rightist 104 Mei ZhiFollowing Her Husband to Prison. 111 Li JiantongBanned for her Anti-Party Novel 115 Yu LuokeExecuted for “Family Background”. 119 Wang ShenyouPut to Death for His Love Letter 124 Liao YiwuIncriminated for His Poem.. 129 Zhao ChangqingInciting Subversion through Elections 133 Shi TaoSentenced for Sending an Email 139 No. 16 (Winter 2013) 144 Ah LongSuppressed for Distortion of Marxism.. 146 Ai QingBanished with His Family to the Borderland. 150 Tian HanDead because of His Tragic Opera. 159 Liu WenhuiKilled for Opposing Cultural Revolution. 168 Wang RuowangCharged for Offending Mao and Lin. 171 Yang XiguangSentenced for “Whither China”. 177 Wang ZaoshiPursuing Wei Zheng Spirit 182 Chen FengxiaoDreams Broken at Weiming Lake. 196 Yuan ChangyingSoul Remaining at Luojia Hill 202 Nie GannuConvicted for His Poetry. 207

The first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo’s magisterial Beyond the Rice Fields delves into the upheavals of the nation’s precolonial past through the twin narratives of a slave and his master’s daughter. Fara and her father’s slave, Tsito, have shared a tender intimacy since her father bought the young boy who’d been ripped away from his family after their forest village was destroyed. Now in Sahasoa, amongst the cattle and rice fields, everything is new for Tsito, and Fara at last has a companion to play with. But as Tsito looks forward toward the bright promise of freedom and Fara, backward to a twisted, long-denied family history, a rift opens that a rapidly shifting political and social terrain can only widen. As love and innocence fall away, their world becomes defined by what tyranny and superstition both thrive upon: fear. With captivating lyricism and undeniable urgency, Naivo crafts an unsentimental interrogation of the brutal history of nineteenth-century Madagascar as a land newly exposed to the forces of Christianity and modernity, and preparing for a violent reaction against them. Beyond the Rice Fields is a tour de force about the global history of human bondage and the competing narratives that keep us from recognizing ourselves and each other, our pasts and our destinies.

This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of conducting scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioral research, and can serve as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to research readings in any doctoral seminar or research methods class. This book is currently used as a research text at universities on six continents and will shortly be available in nine different languages.

Winner of the 2018 Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title! The work of Simone de Beauvoir has endured and flowered in the last two decades, thanks primarily to the lasting influence of The Second Sex on the rise of academic discussions of gender, sexuality, and old age. Now, in this new Companion dedicated to her life and writings, an international assembly of prominent scholars, essayists, and leading interpreters reflect upon the range of Beauvoir’s contribution to philosophy as one of the great authors, thinkers, and public intellectuals of the twentieth century. The Companion examines Beauvoir’s rich intellectual life from a variety of angles—including literary, historical, and anthropological perspectives—and situates her in relation to her forbears and contemporaries in the philosophical canon. Essays in each of four thematic sections reveal the breadth and acuity of her insight, from the significance of The Second Sex and her work on the metaphysics of gender to her plentiful contributions in ethics and political philosophy. Later chapters trace the relationship between Beauvoir’s philosophical and literary work and open up her scholarship to global issues, questions of race, and the legacy of colonialism and sexism. The volume concludes by considering her impact on contemporary feminist thought writ large, and features pioneering work from a new generation of Beauvoir scholars. Ambitious and unprecedented in scope, A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir is an accessible and interdisciplinary resource for students, teachers, and researchers across the humanities and social sciences.

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by the award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages. With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid’s myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction between writing and translating, and provides a close reading of passages from Aristotle’s Poetics to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks and takes up the question of Italo Calvino’s popularity as a translated author. Lahiri considers the unique challenge of translating her own work from Italian to English, the question “Why Italian?,” and the singular pleasures of translating contemporary and ancient writers. Featuring essays originally written in Italian and published in English for the first time, as well as essays written in English, Translating Myself and Others brings together Lahiri’s most lyrical and eloquently observed meditations on the translator’s art as a sublime act of both linguistic and personal metamorphosis.

How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politics In recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and exposing atrocities, and demanding political rights. Tarek El-Ariss situates these critiques of power within a pervasive culture of scandal and leaks and shows how cultural production and political change in the contemporary Arab world are enabled by digital technology yet emerge from traditional cultural models. Focusing on a new generation of activists and authors from Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula, El-Ariss connects WikiLeaks to The Arabian Nights, Twitter to mystical revelation, cyberattacks to pre-Islamic tribal raids, and digital activism to the affective scene-making of Arab popular culture. He shifts the epistemological and historical frameworks from the postcolonial condition to the digital condition and shows how new media challenge the novel as the traditional vehicle for political consciousness and intellectual debate. Theorizing the rise of “the leaking subject” who reveals, contests, and writes through chaotic yet highly political means, El-Ariss investigates the digital consciousness, virality, and affective forms of knowledge that jolt and inform the public and that draw readers in to the unfolding fiction of scandal. Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals maps the changing landscape of Arab modernity, or Nahda, in the digital age and traces how concepts such as the nation, community, power, the intellectual, the author, and the novel are hacked and recoded through new modes of confrontation, circulation, and dissent.