Cui Weiping 崔卫平 b.1956

Liberal

Cui Weiping is a professor at Beijing Film Academy (北京电影学院) and social critic whose works focus on literary theory, political philosophy and Eastern European intellectual and political culture. She is a well-known scholar, professional translator and cultural critic. She is known as a liberal.

Journal articles

  • Cui, Weiping, He, Rowena, Wang, Youqin, and Friedman, Edward. (2010). “Against amnesia: History, memory, and the role of the public intellectual in 21st-century China”. 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 25-28 Mar 2010. 2010. Internet. Retrieved from
  • Cui, Weiping, “Breaking through the Obstacles of Political Isolation and Discrimination*.” Liu Xiaobo, Charter 08, and the Challenges of Political Reform in China, ed. Jean Béja. Hong Kong University Press, 2012.  Hong Kong Scholarship Online. 2013-01-24. Date Accessed 5 Jun. 2015 http://hongkong.universitypressscholarship.com.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/view/10.5790/hongkong/9789888139064.001.0001/upso-9789888139064-chapter-5.

 “This chapter is an account of how Cui Weiping collated the first reactions of intellectuals and artists to Liu Xiabo’s conviction and eleven-year sentence. Spurred into action by her own outrage and sense of injustice, Cui moved to collect these comments in the form of “Tweets” — short, concise summaries of what people told her over the phone — and later posted them online on her blog. Together, they make for a fascinating testimony to the mood of the intellectual elites in that consequential moment.”

Translation on web sources

Blogs