In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:

  • Guardian – A life of purity and dignity
    On June 4 1990, a year after the Beijing massacre, a young man stood in Tiananmen Square – which was full of armed soldiers and police – with a small white flower pinned to his black outfit, a traditional sign of mourning in China. His name was Hu Jia, and he was a high school student in Beijing …

  • Reuters – Dalai Lama losing hope for Tibet autonomy: aide
    The Dalai Lama has lost hope of reaching an agreement with Beijing over Tibetan autonomy under Chinese rule, but is not going into retirement, a senior aide said …

  • ABC Radio Australia – A riot in China over a timber company in Jiangxi Province
    A dispute between a timber company and thousands of villagers in eastern China has exploded into violence …

  • The Economist – Chinese press controls: eating their words
    On food safety, the Chinese press applies an odd precautionary principle …

  • Just Recently’s Beautiful Blog – Zeng Jinyan sees Hu Jia in prison
    According to zengjinyan.org, Zeng Jinyan saw Hu Jia at Beijing Municipal Prison yesterday afternoon, for about thirty minutes. …

  • Sydney Morning Herald – Freedoms don’t extend to locals
    To someone raised on books like Fitzroy MacLean's Eastern Approaches, the lure of unauthorised travel in the remote regions of communist China was always near irresistible …

  • China Digital Times – Who is Hu Jia?
    Xujun Eberlein writes in her blog about the recent European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought award to Hu Jia …

  • The China Beat Blog – The best reporting on the Sichuan earthquake you’ll ever see
    Busan, Korea – Pan Jianlin's documentary about the earthquake that struck Sichuan province on May 12 made a quiet debut on a Sunday morning, at 10 a.m., the third day of this year's Pusan International Film Festival …