Onlookers

Onlookers

People from all over China rush to the scene of China's trial of Bo Xilai, the former Chongqing Party Secretary of the Communist Party of China. The trial took place in August 2013 at the Jinan Intermediate People's Court in Shandong Province. Reporter Liu Xiangnan captured the scene.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 4): Mo Zhixu

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 4): Mo Zhixu

How can China build a real civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple sat for a series of interviews with scholars and civil society actors.
Postcard

Postcard

After retiring from her job as a cadre, Wang Lihong fulfilled what she saw as her civic responsibility to become more active in women’s rights in China, especially the protection of their legal rights. In 2009-2010, she became involved in the “Fujian Netizen Case,” which resulted in the arrest of three human rights activists, who all sought to investigate the death of a 25-year-old women believed to have been murdered in a gang rape by men associated with the local police. Wang Lihong wrote letters to the General Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China every day for nine consecutive days, calling on the authorities to let them go home for the New Year. For this reason, she was criminally detained by the authorities in March 2011 on suspicion of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble." The case was heard by the Beijing, Chaoyang District People's Court on August 12; nearly a month later, on September 9, the court issued a guilty verdict and sentenced Wang Lihong to nine months in prison. The film documents her case, and raises questions about the accountability of the local government and police. Another one of Ai Xiaoming’s films, “Let the Sunshine Reach the Earth,” documents Wang Lihong’s trial process in more detail. This film is in Chinese with Chinese subtitles.
The Vagina Monologues -- Stories Behind the Scenes

The Vagina Monologues -- Stories Behind the Scenes

<i>The Vagina Monologues</i> is a pioneering feminist drama created by the American playwright Eva Ensler. In 2003, teachers and students at the Gender Education Forum of Sun Yat-sen University in China adapted the play and added artistic interpretations of Chinese women's gender experience. The adapted play had its first performance at the Guangdong Provincial Art Museum. This documentary records the attitudes of governments across China towards the play as well as women's perceptions of the play and its connection with their personal experiences. It also highlights the current political and cultural ecology of China.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 8): Xu Youyu

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 8): Xu Youyu

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 53): Liang Xiaoyan

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 53): Liang Xiaoyan

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 29): Ni Yulan

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 29): Ni Yulan

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 42): Wang Guangze

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 42): Wang Guangze

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 15 and 16): Xia Yeliang

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 15 and 16): Xia Yeliang

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working Toward a Civil Society (Episode 19): Fu Guoyong

Working Toward a Civil Society (Episode 19): Fu Guoyong

How can China build a true civil society? Independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants since 2010.
Working Toward a Civil Society (Episode 44): Liu Qian

Working Toward a Civil Society (Episode 44): Liu Qian

How can China build a true civil society? Independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants since 2010.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 21): Zhou Shuguang

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 21): Zhou Shuguang

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 35): Wei Yingjie

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 35): Wei Yingjie

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 11): Liu Xiaoyuan

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 11): Liu Xiaoyuan

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 46): Guo Xianliang

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 46): Guo Xianliang

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 26): Yang Licai

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 26): Yang Licai

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 41): Guo Yushan

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 41): Guo Yushan

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 10): Ai Weiwei

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 10): Ai Weiwei

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 51): Hu Shigen

Working toward a Civil Society (Episode 51): Hu Shigen

How can China build a true civil society? Since 2010, independent director Tiger Temple has conducted a series of interviews with scholars and civil society participants.
Active Life

Active Life

This is a collection of essays by Cui Weiping, a professor at the Beijing Film Academy. The title, inspired by Hannah Arendt, covers a wide range of fields from poetry and movies to politics and ethics, and tells the stories of fascinating people, the construction of their inner world and external lives. These people include Hai Zi, Wang Xiaobo, Arendt, Woolf, Beauvoir, Tarkovsky, Kremer, Herbert, Havel, and many others. Behind these seemingly unrelated names, there are hints of these two interdependent spiritual dimensions: on the one hand, the construction of the external world in which we live; on the other hand, the construction of our own inner world, which cannot be neglected. This book, published by Renmin University of China Press in 2003, has had a significant impact on the development of civil society in China.