Story Archive
2008-12-18
The wife of a jailed activist in Burma talks about her husband's mistreatment at the hands of his captors.
2008-12-13
A woman who has endured the hardship of caring for several jailed relatives talks about life as the member of an activist family.
2008-11-17
A Uyghur woman now living in the United States describes her own experience of the one-child policy.
2008-10-16
A Burmese mother describes her son's recruitment into the junta's armed forces.
2008-09-30
By Dan Southerland, RFA Executive Editor—Tibet's best-known female writer has evolved from a member of China's privileged elite into a forceful critic. Despite the loss of her job, the closure of her blogs, and constant surveillance, Woeser reveals through her poems the courage to speak out.
2008-09-10
British-born Chinese author Helen Tse speaks about her book, Sweet Mandarin, in which she documents a family history of three generations of strong women, rising and falling fortunes—and food.
2008-09-02
Mrs. Lang, 22, agreed to enter an arranged marriage with a wealthy Chinese man in hopes of providing for her impoverished family in Vietnam. But that wasn't how it turned out.
2008-08-20
Gao Wenjuan was alone Aug. 20 at Ritan Park, one of the three designated zones for protesting during the Olympics, although no protests have yet been permitted.
2008-04-24
Li Jingfang is the ex-wife of Wuhan-based veteran Chinese dissident Qin Yongmin, who was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment in 1998 for subverting state power. In a video made ahead of Beijing's hosting of the Olympics, she calls for his early release from jail on medical grounds.
2008-04-14
Burmese politician Daw Nan Khin Htwe Myint represents Pa-An township in the country's parliament. She was one of three female university students jailed for their part in student political activism around 1975. She became a well-known political prisoner while serving her sentence in Rangoon's notorious Insein Prison, a period she still remembers with pain.
