Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom - Hardcover

Zeng, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1569474214 ISBN 13: 9781569474211

Verlag: Soho Pr Inc, 2006

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Book by Zeng Jennifer

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Zheng (Jennifer) Zeng was a graduate in science from Beijing University. She was a wife, a mother, and a Communist Party member. But because she followed a spiritual practice called Falun Gong, her life in China was shattered. Adhering to the practice's simple tenets of Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance, she was amazed that the Party would institute a crack down, arrest her and demand that she recant. After twice being held at a detention center and refusing, 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 remain deprived by an oppressive Chinese government of their freedom of speech and assembly and the freedom to believe as they choose. This is the testament to her ordeal and theirs.

Biografía del autor:

Jennifer Zeng was born in Sichuan Province, China in 1966. A graduate of the presitgious Beijing University, she was arrested for practicing Falun Gong in 2000, after which she was sentenced to reeducation through forced labor. A year later she recanted, and was released on April 3, 2001. She fled to Australia where she was granted refugee status on July 1, 2003.

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• Verlag: Soho Pr Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1569474214
• ISBN 13: 9781569474211
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 353