Witnessing history: one Chinese woman's fight for freedom
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This memoir of a Falun Gong practitioner arrested in China is a "powerful reminder of what can happen when government power runs unchecked" ( Booklist ). Zheng Zeng was a graduate in science from Beijing University, a wife, a mother, and a Communist Party member. After a difficult emotional period, she found comfort in a spiritual practice known as Falun Gong, a form of qigong rooted in exercise and meditation and based on simple tenets of Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance. It quickly improved her life—and then shattered it, when the government began a crackdown on Falun Gong and arrested her. After twice being held at a detention center and refusing to recant, she was sentenced without trial to reeducation through forced labor. Her "enlightenment"—in part undertaken by fellow prisoners incarcerated for prostitution, pornography, and drug addiction—took the form of beatings, torture with electric prods, starvation, sleep deprivation, and forced labor. She was compelled to knit for days at a time, her hands bleeding, to produce goods contracted for sale in the US market. Many Falun Gong practitioners died under the harsh conditions. Zheng Zeng was lucky. Thousands of others have been deprived by an oppressive Chinese government of their freedom of speech and assembly and the freedom to believe as they choose. This is a testament to her ordeal and theirs.
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Grouping Title | witnessing history one chinese womans fight for freedom |
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Electronic books
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Sociology
Women's Studies
Zeng, Jennifer, -- 1966-
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Witnessing history : one Chinese woman's fight for freedom
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Witnessing history : one Chinese woman's fight for freedom / Jennifer Zeng ; translated by Sue Wiles
Witnessing history [electronic resource] : One chinese woman's fight for freedom. Jennifer Zeng
Witnessing history [electronic resource] : One chinese woman's fight for freedom. Jennifer Zeng
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Sociology
Women's Studies
Zeng, Jennifer
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