Fate and Choice

• The Enduring Legacy of Blood Lineage Theory
  Yongyi Song explores how a political movement born on China's campuses nearly 40 years ago continues to make its influence felt in today's Chinese society.
   
• The Scars of Youth
  Song Xiaoying describes the experience of growing up as a "class enemy" in the 1960s and 1970s.
   
• Reincarnations
  An anonymous essayist offers satirical speculation over the fates of certain famous scientists if they had been born in China.
   
• One Word - Plastics
  An Internet poster describes ten professions avoided by China's graduates.
   
• Learning from Ma Jiajue
  Zheng Yichun and Wang Shaoyan present different perspectives on the factors that may have helped turn a promising university student into a murderer.
   
• Broken Flowers
  Zeng Renquan learns more than he wants to know about underage prostitution from a man out rounding up country girls for the trade.
   
• An Inside View
  Zhang Youjie reports on the observations of a former government lawyer, Yu Meisun, who witnessed the importance of family bonds to prisoners.
   
• Juvenile Crime Fact Sheet
  Statistics and official policies regarding juvenile crime in China.
   

In the House of Oppression

• Address Unknown
  Gao Ertai, a dissident artist and writer,offers a tribute to the persevering spirit of his daughter, Gao Lin.
   
• Where Have All the Young Girls Gone?
  Si-si Liu examines China's attempts to address the effects of its coercive one-child policy.
   
• A Dissident and His Daughters
  Dissident Zhang Lin reflects on his efforts to build a family under China's oppressive political and social conditions.
  (Translation from Zhang Lin's longer Chinese essay)
   
• A Mother's Story
  Jin Yanming, the wife of imprisoned dissident Liu Jingsheng, describes her triumph against adversity in raising her son after Liu's arrest in 1992.
   
• Death Row Study Session
  Zeng Linlin recalls her childhood experience of being forced to denounce her own mother, the Cultural Revolutionary dissident Zhang Zhixing.
   
• My Name is Nian
  Eight-year-old Nian Hu describes her hopes as a child of exile.
   

Regular Features

• Off Topic: New York's Underground Chinese Church
  Ann Noonan reports on fears that the long arm of religious oppression has extended to New York's Chinese Catholics.
  • Reference Documents
• Cultural Reviews
  
  Charting a Morally Just Course for China
  Baopu Liu reviews Bruce Gilley's China's Democratic Future: How It Will Happen and Where It Will Lead.
  
  A Record for Every Victim
  Hu Ping reviews Wang Youqin's Victims of the Cultural Revolution: An Investigative Account of Persecution, Imprisonment and Murder.
  
  Sufei's "Choice"
  Stacy Mosher reviews the Laogai Foundation's Better Ten Graves than One Extra Birth.
  
  A Balm in Henan
  Tsoi Wing-mui reviews Yuan Zhiming's documentary The Cross: Jesus in China.
   
• Resource List
   
• Collateral Damage
  Children caught up in religious repression in China
   
• Prisoner Profile
  Hu Shigen
   
• Action
  What you can do about the issues discussed.
   
• HRIC Bulletin
  HRIC's activities in August through October 2004
   
• The Other Toy Story: Workers' Rights in China
  An HRIC Briefing examines issues affecting workers that make the vast majority of the toys that consumers will purchase this holiday season.