Description |
xxxiv, 286 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Summary |
From his solitary-confinement cell he's composed defiant letters to Deng Xiaoping and other Communist leaders, expressing with breathtaking boldness his views on economic reform, foreign investment and relations, Tibet, and other urgent (and often taboo) political topics and social concerns. -- BOOK JACKET |
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Written in a prison cell in China, this is the moving and forceful first book by the paramount leader and symbol of the ongoing struggle for democracy and human rights in China. Once an electrician at the Beijing Zoo, Wei Jingsheng emerged as an eloquent and utterly fearless fighter for individual rights in China during the Democracy Wall Movement in the late 1970s. Though he's spent all but six months of the last seventeen years in prison (now serving a lengthy second sentence), the spirit of his message has continued to inspire generations of Chinese democracy activists from the students in Tiananmen Square to the wary citizens of Hong Kong |
Analysis |
China |
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Ching-sheng Wei |
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Concentration camps |
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Democracy |
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Forced labour |
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History |
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Overseas item |
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Political persecution |
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Political prisoners |
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Prison conditions |
Notes |
Previous ed.: London : Viking, 1997 |
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Translated from the Chinese |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Translated from the Chinese |
Subject |
Wei, Jingsheng.
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Political prisoners -- China -- Correspondence.
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SUBJECT |
China -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024153 -- 1976-
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China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024175
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Author |
Torgeson, Kristina M.
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LC no. |
96050179 |
ISBN |
0670872490 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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