Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing successfully provoked their opposition and eliminated them one by one. That was one of the main reasons they stayed in control of China [until 1976]
Liu Jinxing — who is better known by his artist name Zhui Hun — was detained by Nanjing police in late May 2019 alongside five other prominent and outspoken artists who had exhibits in the city at the same time
Mao-era Chinese dissident Lin Zhao, whose birth name was Peng Lingzhao, was a writer who grew up near Nanjing, in the eastern province of Jiangsu. Initially a star student at the prestigious Peking University, Lin was branded a “rightist” and a “class enemy” in the 1950s for her criticism of then-supreme leader Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Movement targeting intellectuals.
Shandong police are now leading a nationwide operation that has detained at least eight people and questioned many others following the gathering at a restaurant in Fujian’s port city of Xiamen to socialize and to share ideas about China’s development
Yu’s wife Xu Yan was informed in a phone call from the Xuzhou City Procuratorate on June 17after the verdict was read behind closed doors the same morning.
Chen Jiaping, who has also used the name Chen Yong, was detained in early March on suspicion of “incitement to subvert state power,” according to multiple reports
Huang was present at a million-strong protest in Hong Kong on June 9 against plans to allow extradition to mainland China
Huang Xiaomin was handed the two year, six-month prison sentence by the Jinniu District People’s Court in Sichuan’s provincial capital, Chengdu, which found him guilty of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” a charge commonly used to target peaceful critics of the government
The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule and has since worked to promote religious and cultural autonomy for his people