Opinion
Xu Zhangrun: China’s persecuted voice of democracy
27 December 2020 - 00:00
Xu Zhangrun is not a name you hear often in SA. But we should know him since he is one of the world’s great literary proponents of democracy. Xu used to be a professor of law at Tsinghua University in Beijing, but since March 2019 has been the subject of increasingly harsh measures by the Chinese state...
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