Since the prize was awarded, Chinese authorities have clamped down on dissident groups and individuals, placing several people, including the hu shingen (who was featured in our Winter 2007 issue) and Liu's wife, liu xia, under house arrest without charge. tusunjan hezim, a former history teacher, writer, and manager of a website featuring scholarly articles on Uighur history and culture, was sentenced to seven years in jail following a secret trial in March 2011. Scholars featured in previous issues who remain in prison in China include guo quan, a former literature professor at Nanjing Normal University, sentenced to 10 years in prison and three years of deprivation of political rights in October 2009 on charges of "inciting subversion of state power"; lü gengsong, a Chinese writer, activist, and former university teacher, arrested in the summer of 2007 on charges of "incitement to subvert state power" and "illegally possessing state secrets"; zheng yichun, professor of English at Liaoning University, arrested in the winter of 2004 and charged with "suspicion of inciting subversion of state power"; and xu zerong, a professor affiliated with the Provincial Academy of Science and Zhongshan University, arrested in 2002 and charged with revealing state secrets for his use of historical materials in researching the Korean War.
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