Chang Ping

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Chang Ping
Native name
长平
BornZhang Ping
(1968-06-22) 22 June 1968 (age 55)
Sichuan, China
OccupationWriter, Journalist and Curator of June 4th Museum of Memory and Human Rights
SubjectDemocracy, media censorship, the failures of government policy and Tibet
Notable awardsHuman Rights Press Awards,International Press Freedom Award

Chang Ping (simplified Chinese: 长平; traditional Chinese: 長平, born 22 June 1968), born Zhang Ping, is a Chinese writer,[1] and currently[when?] curator of the June 4th Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Hong Kong.[2][3] He is human rights activist and advocate; he was awarded at the Hong Kong Human Rights Press Awards in 2014,[4] and received an international press freedom award from the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) in 2016.[5][6]

Chang Ping has written on topics including democracy, media censorship, government policy, and Tibet.[7] His writings have appeared in publications including Southern Weekend, South China Morning Post,[8] Apple Daily, Deutsche Welle,[9][10] Süddeutsche Zeitung,[11] and The New York Times.[12]

Career

Chang Ping has been a frequent target of censorship for his writing,[citation needed] and was banned from writing columns and publishing books in China. He was removed as news director of Southern Weekend in 2001. He became deputy editor of Southern Metropolis Weekly but was removed in 2008,[13] due to a comment piece carrying the headline "Tibet: Nationalist Sentiment and the Truth", which met with backlash from Chinese nationalists who supported the government's crackdown on pro-independence activists in Tibet. In 2010, he was fired by the newspaper, with his work described as "inappropriate" by an editor, but he told the New York Times in an interview that he would continue writing.[14][15]

Chang Ping joined Hong Kong-based magazine iSun Affairs in 2011 as chief editor, but was denied a visa and has not been allowed into Hong Kong. In late 2011, Chang Ping was invited to live in Germany at the former country home of Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll, which has been converted into a refuge for persecuted writers.[16]

On 15 November 2014, Chang Ping lectured at the 33rd anniversary of PEN International's Day of the Imprisoned Writer to highlight the fate of Tibetan writers imprisoned by Chinese authorities in Dharamsala, India.[17]

In March 2016, Chang Ping alleged that his two younger brothers and a younger sister had been abducted by Chinese police after he wrote an article for Deutsche Welle about a "public letter" published online, calling for the resignation of Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping.[18][19]

Chang Ping was a guest professor at the East China University of Political Science and Law and a senior research fellow at the Southern Metropolis Communication Institute in Guangzhou. In a lecture at Fudan University, he said China should "transform into a civil society rather than wait for a virtuous leader."[14]

Chang Ping has been a longtime observer of the Chinese feminist movement. He wrote a series of articles expressing his worry that the "Chinese Dream" spelled a setback for women's rights.[20][21]

References

  1. ^ "Is Democracy Chinese? An Interview with Journalist Chang Ping". Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  2. ^ "" "六四记忆．人权博物馆"总策展人长平介绍"". 六四纪念馆. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  3. ^ "" 「六四记忆·人权博物馆」今网上开放 即日脱离支联会独立运作"". 中国数字时代. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  4. ^ "Winning Entries of the 18th Annual Human Rights Press Awards". Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
  5. ^ "Exiled Chinese journalist continues his fight for free speech". Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  6. ^ "'Speech Is Freedom Itself' – Chang Ping's Acceptance Speech for the CJFE 2016 International Press Freedom Award". Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  7. ^ "Freedom in a Cage: An Interview With Chang Ping, Former News Director of Southern Weekend, Part One". China Change. 23 February 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  8. ^ "Don't put too much hope in new style of Chinese leadership". 11 December 2012. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
  9. ^ "China's 'freedom' cage". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  10. ^ "A Debate Over Tiananmen Finds Echoes in Germany's Fascist Past". 27 August 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  11. ^ "Die Unterdrückung geht weiter". 4 June 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  12. ^ Ping, Chang (14 April 2016). "Targeting Beyond China". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  13. ^ "The Fate of Press Freedom in China's Era of 'Reform and Opening up': An Interview With Chang Ping". 16 December 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  14. ^ a b Barboza, David (27 January 2011). "Chinese Journalist Who Defied the Censors and Wrote About Corruption Is Fired". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  15. ^ "China tightens grip on press freedom". TheGuardian.com. 27 January 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  16. ^ "Niemand weiß, ob China für Demokratie bereit ist" (in German). 27 September 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  17. ^ "TCHRD and PEN Tibetan honor imprisoned Tibetan writers: Event graced by Kirti Rinpoche and Chang Ping". Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  18. ^ Wong, Edward (28 March 2016). "Chinese Writer in Germany Says 3 Siblings Are Detained Over Xi Letter". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  19. ^ "With Hong Kong booksellers silenced, China now goes after exiled dissidents". The Washington Post. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  20. ^ "Xi's 'southern tour' speech shows why women's rights must advance". 4 February 2013. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  21. ^ "The tragedy of Gu Kailai". 29 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2013.

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