The Most Wanted Man in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Most Wanted Man in China write by Fang Lizhi. This book was released on 2016-02-09. The Most Wanted Man in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The long-awaited memoir by Fang Lizhi, the celebrated physicist whose clashes with the Chinese regime helped inspire the Tiananmen Square protests Fang Lizhi was one of the most prominent scientists of the People's Republic of China; he worked on the country's first nuclear program and later became one of the world's leading astrophysicists. His devotion to science and the pursuit of truth led him to question the authority of the Communist regime. That got him in trouble. In 1957, after advocating reforms in the Communist Party, Fang -- just twenty-one years old -- was dismissed from his position, stripped of his Party membership, and sent to be a farm laborer in a remote village. Over the next two decades, through the years of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, he was alternately denounced and rehabilitated, revealing to him the pettiness, absurdity, and horror of the regime's excesses. He returned to more normal work in academia after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, but the cycle soon began again. This time his struggle became a public cause, and his example helped inspire the Tiananmen Square protests. Immediately after the crackdown in June 1989, Fang and his wife sought refuge in the U.S. embassy, where they hid for more than a year before being allowed to leave the country. During that time Fang wrote this memoir The Most Wanted Man in China, which has never been published, until now. His story, told with vivid detail and disarming humor, is a testament to the importance of remaining true to one's principles in an unprincipled time and place.
The Most Wanted Man in China
The Most Wanted Man in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Most Wanted Man in China write by Fang Lizhi. This book was released on 2016-02-09. The Most Wanted Man in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A long-awaited memoir by the celebrated physicist whose clashes with the Chinese regime helped inspired the Tiananmen Square protests describes how in spite of his scientific contributions he was sentenced to hard labor for decades and eventually sought asylum from the U.S., "--NoveList.
Inside the Red Mansion
Inside the Red Mansion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inside the Red Mansion write by Oliver August. This book was released on 2008-06. Inside the Red Mansion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an effort to understand and assess the forces and factors transforming modern China, a journalist joins the search for China's most wanted man, Lai Changxing, an illiterate tycoon and self-made billionaire on the run from corruption charges.
The Cowshed
The Cowshed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cowshed write by Ji Xianlin. This book was released on 2016-03-08. The Cowshed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Chinese Cultural Revolution began in 1966 and led to a ten-year-long reign of Maoist terror throughout China, in which millions died or were sent to labor camps in the country or subjected to other forms of extreme discipline and humiliation. Ji Xianlin was one of them. The Cowshed is Ji’s harrowing account of his imprisonment in 1968 on the campus of Peking University and his subsequent disillusionment with the cult of Mao. As the campus spirals into a political frenzy, Ji, a professor of Eastern languages, is persecuted by lecturers and students from his own department. His home is raided, his most treasured possessions are destroyed, and Ji himself must endure hours of humiliation at brutal “struggle sessions.” He is forced to construct a cowshed (a makeshift prison for intellectuals who were labeled class enemies) in which he is then housed with other former colleagues. His eyewitness account of this excruciating experience is full of sharp irony, empathy, and remarkable insights into a central event in Chinese history. In contemporary China, the Cultural Revolution remains a delicate topic, little discussed, but if a Chinese citizen has read one book on the subject, it is likely to be Ji’s memoir. When The Cowshed was published in China in 1998, it quickly became a bestseller. The Cultural Revolution had nearly disappeared from the collective memory. Prominent intellectuals rarely spoke openly about the revolution, and books on the subject were almost nonexistent. By the time of Ji’s death in 2009, little had changed, and despite its popularity, The Cowshed remains one of the only testimonies of its kind. As Zha Jianying writes in the introduction, “The book has sold well and stayed in print. But authorities also quietly took steps to restrict public discussion of the memoir, as its subject continues to be treated as sensitive. The present English edition, skillfully translated by Chenxin Jiang, is hence a welcome, valuable addition to the small body of work in this genre. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of that period.”
The People's Republic of Amnesia
The People's Republic of Amnesia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The People's Republic of Amnesia write by Louisa Lim. This book was released on 2014. The People's Republic of Amnesia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989." --The New York Times Book Review
