We commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the 1989 Protest Movement in China and recall with heavy hearts its brutal suppression. During that movement millions of people in China demonstrated in support of freedom of expression and media openness.
In making the documentary film The Gate of Heavenly Peace (天安门 1995), and with the creation of its archival website (www.tsquare.tv), the Long Bow Group attempted to reflect the complex motives and stories behind the events of 1989 in an accessible format, and to provide specialists and the public with an ongoing research resource.
The film was attacked sight unseen both by the Chinese government and by several former student activists prior to its première at the New York Film Festival in October 1995. Subsequently, the Chinese authorities demanded it be banned from international film festivals, claiming that showing it would ‘mislead the audience and hurt the feelings of 1.2 billion Chinese people.’ Meanwhile, the student activists who opposed the film accused us of working for the Chinese government and denounced us as ‘a pack of flies, a true disease of our era.’ (他们是一群苍蝇, 是我们这个时代真正的疾病).
Despite controversy The Gate of Heavenly Peace went on to win numerous prestigious film and academic awards in the United States and overseas. The film has continued to draw attention in the mass media, among researchers and educators and, together with the related website, it forms part of the international discussion of China’s modern history. We believe that the kind of independent research and cinematic work we produce has only been possible through the support of academic colleagues, public funding agencies, private donations, and under the protective umbrella of free speech.
We are now deeply concerned because our very existence as an independent film and archive group is being threatened by a lawsuit launched by one of the people who, during the 1989 Protest Movement in Beijing, professed support for freedom of speech and democracy.
Chai Ling (Ling Chai), President of Jenzabar, Inc., and in 1989 Commander-in-Chief of the Defend Tiananmen Square Headquarters, and her husband, Robert Maginn, CEO of Jenzabar and a former Senior Partner and Director at Bain & Company, sued the Long Bow Group in 2007 in Boston, Massachusetts, for defamation and trademark infringement.
The lawsuit accused us of defamation because our website links to mainstream media news articles that reported critical information about Jenzabar, Chai Ling, and Robert Maginn. The trademark allegations are based on our use of the name ‘Jenzabar’ in the website. In the early stages of the litigation, the court threw out the defamation claims but not the trademark claims. The court recognized that ‘Jenzabar seems unlikely to prevail on [the trademark claims],’ but nevertheless decided to give Jenzabar a chance to try to prove its claims.
As a result, we are facing the accusation that Long Bow – a non-profit documentary film producer – is violating the commercial trademark of Jenzabar, a company that sells administrative and management software systems to large educational institutions. Although we clearly have no connection to Jenzabar and do not compete in any respect with Jenzabar, the lawsuit claims that our site diverts and confuses Jenzabar’s potential customers. In fact, not one person has ever contacted the Long Bow Group about software or Jenzabar.
Over the years, mainstream US media publications (in particular, The Boston Globe, Forbes and The Chronicle of Higher Education) have produced and archived materials related to Jenzabar and its President, Chai Ling. The Long Bow website merely quotes from these materials, yet we are not aware of any action against these larger publications. In our opinion, this lawsuit is clearly intended to intimidate us into removing these news accounts and other information about Chai Ling and Jenzabar from our website. Indeed, Chai Ling’s lawyers have demanded that we remove any reference to the company from our website. We believe that this material is of public interest and it is already in the public domain through other sources. Despite long months of discussion and conciliatory action on our part, undertaken in the hope of bringing an end to what we believe is malicious litigation, the case continues at great expense and risk to us.
The following excerpts from the Complaint filed against Long Bow in May 2007 demonstrate the seriousness of this lawsuit, as a threat to Long Bow and to the principles of political and expressive freedom that we hold so dearly:
—‘Motivated by ill-will, their sympathy for officials in the Communist government of China, and a desire to discredit Chai, a former student leader in the pro-democracy movement in China’s Tiananmen Square, Long Bow Group, Inc. (“Long Bow”) has published false content concerning the Plaintiffs on the website it maintains (the “Site”) and has collected a misleading sample of statements from outdated articles to circulate half-truths and falsehoods, and to create false impressions about Jenzabar, Chai, and Maginn. To ensure that this content is widely viewed and as damaging as possible, Long Bow makes unauthorized use of Jenzabar’s protected trademarks to direct traffic to the Site. As a consequence, Jenzabar’s clients and prospective clients are diverted to the Site and its defamatory content, causing reputational injury and loss of business opportunities.’
—‘Upon information and belief, Long Bow’s defamatory statements are motivated by malice toward Chai, as well as Long Bow’s desire to discredit Chai and advance Long Bow’s divergent political agenda.’
The Complaint also makes a demand:
—‘For an accounting of the gains and profits realized by Long Bow from its aforesaid wrongful acts, and restitution and/or disgorgement to Jenzabar of Long Bow’s ill-gotten gains.’
We believe this is a concerted attempt to undermine a nonprofit film and research organization that has for nearly thirty years presented audiences and educators throughout the world with work on Chinese life and history. Chai and Jenzabar appear determined to drain the limited resources of the Long Bow Group for not complying with their demands that we remove historical materials and data, as well as all references to Jenzabar, from our website. We are of the view that such demands and tactics have dire implications not only for us, but more widely for free speech and independent scholarship.
We believe that in commemorating the events of 1989 twenty years on, it is important to reflect also on the value of independent thought, unfettered historical research, the collection and protection of archival materials and the freedom of speech in our own environment.
It is for this reason that we appeal to you—fellow researchers, colleagues in the media, educators and members of the interested public—to visit our website (www.tsquare.tv) to read the materials that have prompted this lawsuit and the legal filings from the case. We ask you to draw your own conclusions about the issues and freedoms at stake.
Please do not take this appeal as an attack on Jenzabar’s business or the products and services it provides to its customers. We have no interest in prompting or participating in a boycott and no interest whatsoever in causing harm to Jenzabar’s business or its employees. We seek only to preserve our rights, to stand up for the principle of free speech, and to defend ourselves and our work from this unjustified challenge.
If you would like to help, please sign this appeal as a modest gesture of your support for our stand. Please know that your signature carries no legal obligations, responsibilities, or commitments of any kind, nor does it mean that you necessarily agree with opinions expressed in either the Long Bow Group's films or its websites. Rather, it indicates that any instance of a corporation using its money and its power to stifle debate and suppress the historical record is cause for concern, in the academic community and beyond. If you are interested in lending your support, please email us at info@longbow.org, and we will add your name to the list of signatories posted on our website. Please be sure to include your name, title, and affiliation (if any) in your email.
Written and Signed by
Carma Hinton, Professor of Visual Culture & Chinese Studies, George Mason University; Producer, Director, Long Bow Group
Richard Gordon, Producer, Director, President, Long Bow Group
Geremie R. Barmé, Professor of Chinese History, The Australian National University, Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities; Producer, Director, Long Bow Group
Nora Chang, Producer, Director, Long Bow Group
Signatories
R. David Arkush, Professor of Chinese History
The University of Iowa, IA, USA
Fran?oise Aubin
Le Parc de Seronne, Jumelles, France
Pat Aufderheide, Professor and Director
Center for Social Media, School of Communication
American University, Washington, D.C., USA
Dr. Limin Bai, Senior Lecturer in Chinese
School of Languages and Cultures
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
C. D. Alison Bailey, Director, Centre for Chinese Research
Institute of Asian Research
University of British Columbia, Canada
Suzanne Wilson Barnett, Professor Emerita, History
University of Puget Sound, WA, USA
Dr. Ruth Barraclough, Lecturer in Korean Studies
College of Asia & the Pacific
The Australian National University, Australia
Jeffrey Berger, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy
Community College of Philadelphia, PA, USA
Sarah Biddulph, Associate Professor and Reader
Law School
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor Marc Blecher
Department of Politics
Oberlin College, OH, USA
Professor Harald Bockman
Research Centre for Development and the Environment
University of Oslo, Norway
Dorothy V. Borei, Professor of History Emerita
Guilford College, NC, USA
Dr. Sally Borthwick, Sinologist
Yomi Braester, Professor of Comparative Literature
University of Washington, WA, USA
Dr. Anne-Marie Brady, MRSNZ, Associate Professor in Political Science
School of Political and Social Sciences
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
John Braithwaite, Regulatory Institutions Network
RSPAS, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Australian National University, Australia
Professor Timothy Brook
Principal, St. John's College
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Patrick Brown
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Beijing, China
Daniel Bryant, Professor Emeritus
Department of Pacific and Asian Studies
University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada
Peter Button, Assistant Professor
Department of East Asian Studies
New York University, NY, USA
Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Professor and Head
Department of Government and International Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
James Cahill, Professor Emeritus
History of Art
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Daniel Cairns, Graduate Student
University of Chicago, IL, USA
William A. Callahan, Professor of International Politics and Chinese Studies
University of Manchester
Co-Director of the British Inter-university China Centre
Oxford, UK
Dr. Duncan Campbell, Senior Lecturer
China Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies
College of Asia & the Pacific
The Australian National University, Australia
Thomas R. Carter
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Dr. Anita Chan, Research Fellow, Contemporary China Centre
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University, Australia
Dr. Red Chan
University of Warwick
Coventry, UK
Briankle G. Chang
Director, Center for the Study of Communication
Department of Communication
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Michael G. Chang, Associate Professor
Department of History and Art History
George Mason University, VA, USA
Hilary Charlesworth, Professor, RegNet
Australian National University, Australia
Lejen Chen, Organic Farmer
Green Cow Farm
Beijing, China
Dr. Tina Chen, Associate Professor of History
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Vivien Chen
New York City, NY, USA
Professor Pei-kai Cheng
Director, Chinese Civilisation Centre
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Xiaoqing Chi, artist
New Hampshire, USA
Eva Shan Chou, Associate Professor
English Department
City University of New York, Baruch College, NY, USA
A.E. Clark
Ragged Banner Press
Father Jeremy Clarke S.J., Visiting Fellow
The Australian National University, Australia
Lisa Claypool, Assistant Professor of Art History and Humanities
Reed College, OR, USA
Cathryn H. Clayton, Assistant Professor
School of Pacific and Asian Studies
University of Hawai'i, HI, USA
Don J. Cohn, Senior Editor, ArtAsiaPacific
New York, NY, USA
Lois Conner, Photographer
New York, NY, USA
Dr. Susette Cook, Lecturer in China Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Bryan Corrigan, Teacher, AP Economics
Belmont Public Schools, Belmont, MA, USA
Spencer R. Crew
Clarence J. Robinson Professor of American, African American, and Public History
George Mason University, VA, USA
Dr. Francesca Dal Lago
Leiden Institute for Area Studies
Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Dr. Gloria Davies, Associate Professor and Convenor of Chinese Studies
Monash University, Australia
Michael E. Davies, Principal
Appletree Hill Solicitors, Australia
Deborah Davis, Professor of Sociology
Yale University, CT, USA
Robert DeCaroli, Associate Professor
George Mason University, VA, USA
Steven DeCaroli, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Goucher College, MD, USA
Margaret H. Decker, Computer System Specialist
Belmont Public Schools, Belmont, MA, USA
Dr. Kirk A. Denton, Associate Professor
East Asian Languages and Literature
The Ohio State University, OH, USA
Fran?oise Derré, writer, translator
Paris, France
Joel Devalcourt
University of New Orleans, USA
Neil J. Diamant, Associate Professor of Asian Law and Society
Dickinson College, PA, USA
Zheng Ding, Professor of Physics
Normandale Community College
Bloomington, MN, USA
Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
Professor of Chinese Media Studies
University of Sydney, Australia
Elvira & Vasco Dones, Producers
Dones Media LLC, Rockville, MD, USA
Hua Dong, Academic Specialist
Coordinator, Chinese Language Program
Northeastern University, MA, USA
Darrell Dorrington
Menzies Library
The Australian National University, Australia
Adam Driver, Ph.D. Candidate
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University, Australia
Marie-Pierre Duhamel, film critic and translator
Paris, France
Emily Dunn, Ph.D. Candidate
Asia Institute/History
University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor Michael Dutton
Research Chair, Professor of Political Cultures
Griffith University, Australia
Richard Louis Edmonds, Visiting Professor in Geographical Studies
University of Chicago, IL, USA
Professor Mark Elliott
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Harvard University, MA, USA
Benjamin A. Elman, Professor of East Asian Studies & History
Princeton University, NJ, USA
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C.V. Starr East Asian Library
Columbia University, NY, USA
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Marlboro, NJ, USA
Karen Engst
Pau, France
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Pau, France
Andrew Fair
Law Offices of Andrew L. Fair
New York, NY, USA
Professor Judith Farquhar, Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences
Chicago University, IL, USA
Professor Mary Farquhar
Executive member and former President
Chinese Studies Association of Australia
Siyen Fei, Assistant Professor
Department of History
University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Jesseca Ferguson, Continuing Part Time Faculty
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, MA, USA
Dr. Susan Fernsebner, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies
University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, VA, USA
Nick Fraser, Commissioning Editor, BBC
Andy Friend
Ellen V. Fuller, Assistant Professor
East Asian Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Studies in Women and Gender
University of Virginia, VA, USA
Peter L. Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor
Department of Physics
Harvard University, MA, USA
Carrillo Gantner
Ziyin Gantner
Professor Mobo Gao
Chair of Chinese Studies
Director, Confucius Institute
Centre for Asian Studies
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Andrea Geyling, Modern World History Instructor
Milton Academy, MA, USA
Christina Gilmartin, Associate Professor of History
Northeastern University, MA, USA
Research Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Harvard University, MA, USA
Peter Gilmartin, Program Director
Primary Source, MA, USA
Professor Dr. Sean Golden
Director, Institut d'Estudis Internacionals i Interculturals
(Institute for International & Intercultural Studies)
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Jeremy Goldkorn, Editor
Danwei.org (www.danwei.org), Beijing, China
Andrea S. Goldman, Assistant Professor of Qing and Modern China
Department of History
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Joshua Goldstein, Associate Professor
History Department
University of Southern California, CA, USA
Jack Golson AO, Emeritus Professor
Department of Archaeology and Natural History
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University, Australia
Bryna Goodman, Professor of Chinese History
University of Oregon, OR, USA
Professor David S G Goodman, Professor of Chinese Politics and Director
Institute of Social Sciences
University of Sydney, Australia
Dr. Christopher Gregg, Term Assistant Professor
Department of History and Art History
George Mason University, VA, USA
Gerald V. Griffith, Producer
Cartesian Coordinates
Fairfax, VA, USA
Misha M. Griffith, Graduate Researcher
George Mason University, VA, USA
Alison Groppe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chinese
Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures
University of Oregon, OR, USA
A. Tom Grunfeld, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor
Empire State College/ SUNY, NY, USA
Kenneth J. Hammond, Professor of History
New Mexico State University, NM, USA
Mette Halskov Hansen, Professor in Chinese Studies
Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages
University of Oslo, Norway
Dr. Mark Harrison, Senior Lecturer in Chinese
School of Asian Languages and Studies
University of Tasmania, Australia
David Hawkes, translator and writer
Oxford, England
Nancy Hearst, Fairbank Center
Harvard University, MA, USA
Professor Gail Hershatter
Distinguished Professor, Department of History
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Christian A. Hess, RCUK Academic Fellow/Assistant Professor
Department of History
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Joan Hinton
Beijing, China
Dahpon David Ho, Assistant Professor in History
American University
Washington, D.C., USA
Isaac Ho, student
University of Southern California, CA, USA
Mack P. Holt, Professor of History
Director of Graduate Studies
George Mason University, VA, USA
Brian Holton, Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese & Bilingual Studies
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Laura Hostetler, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
Department of History
University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA
Hu Minghui, Assistant Professor
Department of History
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Dr. Nicole Huang
Director, Center for East Asian Studies
Associate Professor of Chinese Literature
East Asian Languages and Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA
Vivian Huang, General Manager/Curator
Chinese American Arts Council/Gallery 456, NY, USA
Former Festival Director
Asian American International Film Festival, NY, USA
Theodore Huters, Professor of Chinese
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Eric Hyer, Associate Professor and Asian Studies Coordinator
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT, USA
John Israel, Professor Emeritus
University of Virginia, VA, USA
Dr. Tamara Jacka, Senior Fellow (Associate Professor)
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
College of Asia and the Pacific
The Australian National University, Australia
Linda Jaivin, novelist and independent scholar and translator
Sydney, Australia
Dr. Nancy Jervis, Independent Scholar
New York City, NY, USA
Nan Jiang, Associate Professor
University of Maryland, MD, UDA
David Johnson, Professor of History
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Heidi Johnson
Columbia, SC, USA
Professor Margaret Jolly
Head Gender Relations Centre
College of Asia and the Pacific
The Australian National University, Australia
Professor William A. Joseph
Department of Political Science
Wellesley College, MA, USA
Professor Ellen R. Judd
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Harold L. Kahn, Professor emeritus
Stanford University, CA, USA
Kang Wenqing
History Department
Cleveland State University, OH, USA
Jian Kao, Engineer of Telcordia Technology
Marlboro, NJ, USA
Yasuhiko Karasawa, Associate Professor (History)
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
Professor Fumitoshi Karima
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Rebecca E. Karl, Associate Professor
East Asian Studies & History Departments
New York University, NY, USA
Nancy D. Kates, Producer-Director
Berkeley, CA, USA
Dr. Michael Keane, Associate Professor
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Dr. David Kelly
China Research Centre
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Mills Kelly, Associate Dean for Enrollment Development
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Director, Master of Arts in Global Affairs
George Mason University, VA, USA
William W. Kelly, Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies
Yale University, CT, USA
Alec (Do Woo) Kim, Engine Auditor, Airworthiness Compliance
Qantas, Sydney, Australia
Dr. Marjorie King
The American School in Taiwan and Independent Scholar
Taiwan
Richard King, Director
Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives
University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada
Dr. Andrew Kipnis
The Australian National University, Australia
Victor Koski student
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
History Department
George Mason University, VA, USA
Natasha Koval-Paden, pianist
Department of Music
Middlebury College, VT, USA
Professor Richard Kraus
Political Science
University of Oregon, OR, USA
Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Associate Professor of Chinese
Dept. of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures
Emory University, GA, USA
Research Group Director
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Berlin, Germany
Helen Lansdowne
Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Fabio Lanza, Assistant Professor
Department of History
University of Arizona, AZ, USA
Kevin Lawrence, Associate Director, Teach China
China Institute, NY, USA
Michael R. Leaman, Publisher
Reaktion Books, London, UK
Eugenia Lean, Assistant Professor in Chinese History
Columbia University, NY, USA
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University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Andrew Y. Lee, Ph.D.
University Libraries
George Mason University, VA, USA
Chin-Chuan Lee, Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Jane C Lee
Hong Kong
Dr. Mabel Lee, Honorary Associate Professor in Chinese Studies
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
University of Sydney, Australia
Andre Lévy, professeur émérite à l'université de Bordeaux
University of Bordeaux, France
Li Jie, Ph.D. Candidate
East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Film Studies
Harvard University, MA, USA
Jin Li, Ed.D., Associate Professor of Education and Human Development
Brown University, RI, USA
Lillian M. Li, Professor of History
Swarthmore College, PA, USA
Lin Chun
London School of Economics, UK
Pearl Lin
Hualian Travel International Corporation, CT, USA
Vivian Lin, Professor of Public Health
School of Public Health
La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
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University of Oslo, Norway
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Ph.D., Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
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Program Manager, GE
Liu Xiaoyuan, Professor of History
Iowa State University, IA, USA
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University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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History Department
Milton Academy, MA, USA
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Asian Studies
University of Redlands, CA, USA
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Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Baolin Ma
Houston, TX, USA
Jean Ma, Assistant Professor
Art and Art History
Stanford University, CA, USA
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Emeritus Professor, AO, Griffith Business School
Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
Rebecca MacKinnon, Assistant Professor
Journalism & Media Studies Centre
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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College of Asia and the Pacific
The Australian National University, Australia
Professor Susan Mann
History Department
University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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Rome, Italy
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Total, Exploration and Production
Pau, France
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George Mason University, VA, USA
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Canberra, Australia
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Asia Institute
University of Melbourne, Australia
Edward McCord, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs
Director, Taiwan Education and Research Program
Elliott School of International Affairs
George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA
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School of Asian Studies
University of Auckland, New Zealand
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Asia Institute, Chinese Language and Culture Studies
University of Melbourne, Australia
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Political Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Head, China Centre, College of Asia & the Pacific
The Australian National University, Australia
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Head of the School of Languages and Cultures
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
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Political Science and International Studies
Kenyon College, OH, USA
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Professor and Department Chair, History Department
California Polytechnic State University, CA, USA
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Department of International Relations
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University, Australia
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Dean, The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies
Beijing, China
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Visual Anthropology Review Editor, American Anthropologist
Acting Director of Asian Studies, Department of Anthropology
University of South Carolina, SC, USA
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Harvard University, MA, USA
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Iowa State University, IA, USA
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Venice International Film Festival, Venice, Italy
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Beijing, China
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Associate Professor, Communication Studies
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Dyson College and Project Pericles at Pace
Pace University, NY, USA
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University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA
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Sydney, Australia
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Boston College, MA, USA
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History Department and Asian Studies Program
University of Puget Sound, WA, USA
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The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Hong Kong
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Qantas Engineering Services, Sydney, Australia
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Chinese History
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Department of Geography
University of Colorado, CO, USA
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College of Asia and the Pacific
The Australian National University, Australia
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The Australian National University, Australia
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Co-Director, Center for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
George Mason University, VA, USA
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Department of Religion
University of Vermont, VT, USA
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Italian Embassy, Beijing, China
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Wisconsin Lutheran College, WI, USA
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The Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY, USA
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New Hampshire, USA
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Chair, ANU China Institute, Fellow, History of China
Division of Pacific and Asian History
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,
The Australian National University, Australia
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology
St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, USA
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Ronin Films, Australia
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Department of History and Art History
George Mason University, VA, USA
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School of Journalism & Mass Communication
The University of Iowa, IA, USA
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University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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Beijing Review, Spanish edition
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Department of History
University of Virginia, VA, USA
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Community Studies Department
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University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Director, Asian Studies Program
Berea College, KY, USA
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ANU China Institute, Australia
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Pacific Lutheran University, WA, USA
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New York, NY, USA
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New York, NY, USA
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Research Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian Studies
RSPAS, The Australian National University, Australia
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New York University, NY, USA
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Chair, Department of Anthropology
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Duke University, NC, USA
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WilmerHale, Beijing Office
Beijing, China
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George Mason University, VA, USA
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Yale University, CT, USA
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Duke University, NC, USA
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
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Loyola College in Maryland, MD, USA
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History and Art History Department
George Mason University, VA, USA
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Humanities
San Francisco State University, CA, USA
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Cornell University, NY, USA
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University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
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College of Asia & the Pacific
The Australian National University, Australia
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Northwestern University, IL, USA
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University of Iowa, IA, USA
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The Straits Times, Singapore
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European University Institute
Florence, Italy
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Stanford University, CA, USA
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Renmin University of China
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Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA
Course Chair for China Advanced Area Studies, Foreign Service Institute
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Arlington, VA, USA
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School of Historical Studies
Newcastle University, UK
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Massachusetts College of Art and Design, MA, USA
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Department of Anthropology
London School of Economics, UK
David Stoll, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Middlebury College, VT, USA
Professor David Strand, Charles A. Dana Chair of Political Science and East Asian Studies
Dickinson College, PA, USA
Andrew Strominger, Professor of Physics
Harvard University, MA, USA
Dr. Warren Sun
Chinese Studies Program
Monash University, Australia
Dr. Li Tana, Senior Fellow
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University, Australia
Harold M. Tanner
Department of History
University of North Texas, TX, USA
Dr. Jeremy Taylor, Lecturer, School of East Asian Studies
University of Sheffield, England
Professor Frederick Teiwes, Emeritus Professor of Chinese Politics at the University of Sydney
University of Sydney, Australia
Dr. Greg M. Thomas, Associate Professor
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Saul Thomas, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago, IL, USA
Neil Thompson
New York, NY, USA
Ellen Wiley Todd, Associate Professor, Art History
George Mason University, VA, USA
Maureen Todhunter
Griffith University, Australia
Dr. Luigi Tomba, co-editor, The China Journal
Department of Political and Social Change
College of Asia & the Pacific
The Australian National University, Australia
Dr. Jasmine Tong, Assistant Professor of Translation
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Nhung Tuyet Tran
Canada Research Chair in Southeast Asian History
Assistant Professor, Department of History
University of Toronto, Canada
Professor James Trefil, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Physics
George Mason University, VA, USA
JB Treseler, teacher
Dr. Sue Trevaskes, Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute
Griffith University, Australia
Steve Tsang, Fellow and University Reader in Politics
St Antony's College
Oxford University, UK
Professor Jonathan Unger
Contemporary China Centre
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University, Australia
Dr. Paola Voci, Senior Lecturer
Department of Languages and Cultures
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus and former director, Fairbank Center
Harvard University, MA, USA
Joanna Waley-Cohen, Collegiate Professor of Chinese History
Department of History
New York University, NY, USA
Dr. Aihe Wang, Associate Professor
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor Ban Wang
East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
Stanford University, CA, USA
Hongying Wang, Director, East Asia Program
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Syracuse University, NY, USA
Wang Lixiong, writer
Beijing, China
Mei Wang, Assistant Professor of Finance and Financial Markets
Swiss Banking Institute
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Ruike Wang, student
Ohio Wesleyan University, OH, USA
Wang Zheng, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Women's Studies Department
University of Michigan, MI, USA
Ding Xiang Warner, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature
Cornell University, NY, USA
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Professor of History
University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Wei Wei, writer
Manchester, UK
Sasha Su-Ling Welland, Assistant Professor
Anthropology & Women Studies
University of Washington, WA, USA
Raymond Wiest, Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
University of Manitoba, Canada
Teresa Wright, Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Department of Political Science
California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA
Professor Tim Wright, Professor of Chinese Studies
School of East Asian Studies and White Rose East Asia Centre
The University of Sheffield, UK
Dr. Guoguang Wu, Chair in China and Asia-Pacific Relations
Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives
University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada
Wu Yi-Li, Associate Professor of History
Chair, International Studies Program
Albion College, MI, USA
Anne Xu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chinese
Department of Classical and Modern Language
Austin College, TX, USA
Guobin Yang, Associate Professor
Asian/Middle Eastern Cultures
Barnard College, Columbia University, NY, USA
Professor Mayfair Yang
Director, Asian Studies Program
University of Sydney, Australia
Rae Yang, Associate Professor
East Asian Studies Department
Dickinson College, PA, USA
Walt G. Yang, student
Dr. Mike Yao, Assistant Professor of Media and Communication
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Weili Ye, Professor of History and Women's Studies
University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA
Catherine Yeh, Associate Professor
Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
Boston University, MA, USA
Sam Zhiguang Yin, Ph.D. Candidate
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
President, Cambridge International Forum for Development
University of Cambridge, UK
Marilyn Young, Professor of History
New York University, NY, USA
Zang Dongsheng, Assistant Professor of Law
University of Washington School of Law, WA, USA
Dr. Peter Zarrow
Institute of Modern History
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Elya J. Zhang, Assistant Professor in History
Fordham University, NY, USA
Dr. Jing Zhang, Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Culture
New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL, USA
Karl Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Chinese Program
89年六四事件前学运领袖柴玲控告纪录片《天安门》(The Gate of Heavenly Peace)的制作公司侵害其声誉及公司商誉再引起争议，近百的学者联名声援言论自由。也有前学运领袖表示理解，至于柴玲用法律的手段维护自己的权益，与过去的历史切割外界有不同看法。（何山报道）
柴玲2007年5月在美国波士顿入禀法院，以诽谤和侵犯商誉，起诉描述 “六四天安门事件”的纪录片《天安门》的制作公司（the Long Bow Group），再次引公众的关注。过百名来自美国、英国、欧洲的中外学者，在网上发表联署声明，为《天安门》的作者撑腰，当中包括来自北京的作家王力雄及人民大学的教授。