| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 366 pages) |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I POLITICS WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS -- Listen Carefully to the Voices of the Tiananmen Mothers -- Reading the Unedited Interview Transcripts of Family Members Bereaved by the Massacre -- Poem: Your Seventeen Years -- Poem: Standing amid the Execrations of Time -- To Change a Regime by Changing a Society -- Land Manifestos of Chinese Farmers -- Xidan Democracy Wall and China's Enlightenment -- Spiritual Landscape of the Urban Young in Post-Totalitarian China -- Poem: What One Can Bear -- Poem: A Knife Slid into the World -- Bellicose and Thuggish -- Roots of Chinese "Patriotism" at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century -- State Ownership of land is the authorities' magic wand for forced eviction -- Deeper Look into Why Child Slavery in China's "Black Kilns" Could Happen -- Significance of the "Weng' an Incident" -- pt. II CULTURE AND SOCIETY -- ̂ |
| Summary |
When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in December 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was serving an eleven-year sentence in a Chinese prison for "incitement to subvert state power." These essays and poems not only chronicle a leading dissident's struggle against tyranny but enrich the record of universal longing for freedom and dignity |
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When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on December 10, 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was in Jinzhou Prison, serving an eleven-year sentence for what Beijing called "incitement to subvert state power." In Oslo, actress Liv Ullmann read a long statement the activist had prepared for his 2009 trial. It read in part: "I stand by the convictions I expressed in my 'June Second Hunger Strike Declaration' twenty years ago--I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me are my enemies."That statement is one of the pieces in this book, which includes writings spanning two decades, providing insight into all aspects of Chinese life. These works not only chronicle a leading dissident's struggle against tyranny but enrich the record of universal longing for freedom and dignity. Liu speaks pragmatically, yet with deep-seated passion, about peasant land disputes, the Han Chinese in Tibet, child slavery, the CCP's Olympic strategy, the Internet in China, the contemporary craze for Confucius, and the Tiananmen massacre. Also presented are poems written for his wife, Liu Xia, public documents, and a foreword by Václav Havel. This collection is an aid to reflection for Western readers who might take for granted the values Liu has dedicated his life to achieving for his homeland |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Chinese essays -- 21st century
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Essays -- 21st century
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Chinese poetry -- 21st century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom.
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Chinese essays
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Chinese poetry
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Essays
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Link, Perry, 1944-
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Martin-Liao, Tienchi
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Liu, Xia, 1961-
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| LC no. |
2011014145 |
| ISBN |
0674063112 |
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9780674063112 |
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0674071948 |
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9780674071940 |
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