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Author Wei, Jingsheng.

Title The courage to stand alone : letters from prison and other writings / Wei Jingsheng ; edited and translated by Kristina M. Torgeson ; with essays by Andrew J. Nathan, Liu Qing, Sophia Woodman
Edition New edition
Published New York : Viking, 1997

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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
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
Ching-sheng Wei
Concentration camps
Democracy
Forced labour
History
Overseas item
Political persecution
Political prisoners
Prison conditions
Notes Previous ed.: London : Viking, 1997
Translated from the Chinese
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Translated from the Chinese
Subject Wei, Jingsheng.
Political prisoners -- China -- Correspondence.
SUBJECT China -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024153 -- 1976-
China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024175
Author Torgeson, Kristina M.
LC no. 96050179
ISBN 0670872490 (hbk. : alk. paper)