To build a free China : a citizen's journey

Author(s)

• Xu, Zhiyong
• Rosenzweig, Joshua
• Cao, Yaxue
• Nathan, Andrew J. (Andrew James)

Bibliographic Information

To build a free China : a citizen's journey

Xu Zhiyong ; translated by Joshua Rosenzweig and Yaxue Cao ; with an introduction by Andrew Nathan

Lynne Rienner, 2017

• : hardcover

Other Title

Tang tang zheng zheng zuo gong min

Note

Includes index

Original title from CIP data on t.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The story of China's rights movement-a struggle for basic human rights and democracy that, despite harsh repression, has endured for more than a decade-unfolds in Xu Zhiyong's compelling personal memoir. In recognition of his work as an activist, lawyer, and founder of the New Citizen Movement, Dr. Xu was named one of Asia Weekly's People of the Year in 2005 and one of the Southern People's Weekly's Top Ten Young Leaders of China in 2006. His efforts have been considerably less well received, however, by the government of the PRC, and he has been arrested numerous times. Dr. Xu has been serving a four-year prison sentence since 2013 for "gathering a crowd to disrupt order in a public place." His moving statement at the end of his trial, hailed as the China Manifesto, is included in To Build a Free China.

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Details

• NCID: BB24825987
• ISBN:
  • 9781626375840
• LCCN: 2016028547
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: chi
• Place of Publication: Boulder, Colo.
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 297 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JQ1510
  • DC23 : 322.4/40951
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : China -- Politics and government -- 2002-
  • LCSH : Citizenship -- China