Presentation of the Oxi Courage Award to Liu Xia

I want to thank Andy and Mike Manatos and the Oxi Day Foundation for giving this important Oxi Courage Award to Liu Xia, a Chinese poet and photographer and a woman of unparalleled moral courage. I had the rare privilege of meeting Liu Xia last month in New York when we were both there to take part...

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2014 Democracy Award

On June 4, 1989, the world watched as Chinese tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square, bringing a violent end to the peaceful, student-led democracy movement and killing hundreds, maybe thousands, of citizens who sought political reform. Despite this brutal...

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2023 Reading Challenge

2023 Reading Challenge Challenge yourself by reading books you wouldn’t normally check out. Find all of these...

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The Chinese Communist Party at 100: Is the Past Prologue to the Future?

  about the event Since its founding in July 1921 and subsequent rise to national power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has indelibly shaped the lives of billions of people living within the asserted borders of the People’s...

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