Zhou Qing is a writer, activist and folklorist. Born in 1965, he was imprisoned for two years for taking part in pro-democracy demonstrations at Tiananmen Square in 1989. He has been a visiting scholar in the US and Russia and is currently chief editor of the magazine Oral Museum. He is also a member of the Independent Chinese PEN Association and of the China Society for the Study of Folk Literature and Art.
openAwakening in conjunction with the University of East London is organizing a three-part event series on ‘The Tahrir Square Meme’ to be held at UEL's Dockland Campus.
Our first event is Rap and the Arab Spring.
Read Anthony Barnett's lecture for the Raymond Williams Society and his foreword to the new edition of The Long Revolution:
The Long Revolution Raymond Williams
Jim Gabour Sunday Comics
James Warner Standing Perpendicular, as books do
Markha Valenta Inter Alia: religion, politics, culture
Paul Rogers on Global security
Li Datong on China from the inside
Mary Kaldor on Human security
Daniele Archibugi on Cosmopolitan democracy
