The film is less a career survey than an admiring political portrait of a stubborn dissident playing a risky cat-and-mouse game with the government.
BEIJING — For months, Chen Guangcheng, one of China's best-known dissidents, played a cat-and-mouse game with the phalanx of guards encircling his home.
Dissident activity plays only a small but potent part in the overall mix.Adaptive authoritarianismFor the party leaders the internet has created more subtle challenges.
Also illuminating is his close analysis of the impact that the White House's idées fixes had, not just on the Iraq war but also on other foreign policy problems like North Korea, and his detailed examination of the formative role that the former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky played in shaping President Bush's determination to try to export democracy around the world.
We're happy enough to see aesthetic or imaginative dissidents at play in art, fashion, comedy, even (grudgingly) in fiction.
Ling was elected "chief commander" by the student dissidents and played a leading role in the anti-government movement before it was brutally crushed by the military.
Richard Nixon, Langston Hughes, and dissident groups all play roles as the action shifts from Harlem to Washington and Saigon.
International human rights groups have criticized China for the arrest of the advocate, Hu Jia, and accused the Chinese government of cracking down on dissidents before Beijing plays host to the Olympics in August.
As the rock-loving Czech dissident in the Stoppard play, the British actor Rufus Sewell seems to exist in a state of eternal bafflement, squinting warily at the sentences lobbed at him by academics, politicians and journalists.
The woman who shaved her head in 2001 has, in the last decade or so, played a dissident journalist (Imagining Argentina); spoofed "a hippy-chick professor of fortune-telling" (Harry Potter); wowed the Lincoln Center as Mrs Lovett in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd; and scored cameo appearances in Men in Black 3, An Education and The Boat that Rocked.
