June Fourth Elegies
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June Fourth Elegies
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Author : Liu Xiaobo
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-04-12
June Fourth Elegies written by Liu Xiaobo and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-12 with Poetry categories.
Liu Xiaobo died in 2017, the first Nobel Laureate to do so in detention since 1935. Liu was a pre-eminent Chinese literary critic, professor and humanitarian activist. After his hunger strike in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 he became a thorn in the side of the Chinese government, helping to write the Charter 08 manifesto calling for free speech, democratic elections and basic human rights. He was arrested and convicted on charges of 'incitement to subversion', and sentenced to eleven years in prison. The following year, 2010, during this fourth prison term, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 'his prolonged non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China'. Neither he nor his wife was allowed to travel to Oslo, and the Chinese government blocked all news stories of the prize and intimidated Liu's friends and family. June Fourth Elegies is a collection of the poems Liu Xiaobo wrote each year on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. An extraordinarily moving testimony and an historical document of singular importance, it is dedicated to 'the Tiananmen Mothers and for those who can remember'. In this bilingual volume, Liu's poetry is for the first time published freely in both English translation and in the Chinese original.
Wealth And Power
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Author : Orville Schell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-07-16
Wealth And Power written by Orville Schell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-16 with History categories.
By now everyone knows the basic facts of China's rise to pre-eminence over the past three decades. But how did this erstwhile sleeping giant finally manage to arrive at its current phase of dynamic growth? How did a century-long succession of failures to change somehow culminate in the extraordinary dynamism of China today? By examining the lives of eleven influential officials, writers, activists and leaders whose contributions helped create modern China, Wealth and Power addresses these questions. This fascinating survey moves from the lead-up to the first Opium War through to contemporary opposition to single-party rule. Along the way, we meet titans of Chinese history, intellectuals and political figures. By unwrapping the intellectual antecedents of today's resurgent China, Orville Schell and John Delury supply much-needed insight into the country's tortured progression from nineteenth-century decline to twenty-first-century boom. By looking backward into the past to understand forces at work for hundreds of years, they help us understand China today and the future that this singular country is helping shape for all of us.
Cosmopolitanism And The Legacies Of Dissent
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Author : Tamara Caraus
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-17
Cosmopolitanism And The Legacies Of Dissent written by Tamara Caraus and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-17 with Political Science categories.
The core idea shared by all cosmopolitan views is that all human beings belong to a single community and the ultimate units of moral concern are individual human beings, not states or particular forms of human associations. Nevertheless, the attempts to ground a political theory on overarching universal principles is in contradiction with the plurality of social, cultural, political, religious interpretative standpoints in the contemporary world. Is dissent cosmopolitan? Is there a legacy of dissent for a theory of cosmopolitanism? This book is a comparative, historical analysis of dissident thought and practice for contemporary debates on cosmopolitanism. Divided into two parts, the editors and contributors explore the contribution of ‘paradigmatic’ dissidents like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Havel, Sakharov, Mandela, Liu Xiaobo, Aung San Suu Kyi towards a post-universalist cosmopolitan theory. Part Two examines the inherent cosmopolitanism of the seemingly ‘peripheral’ dissent of contemporary forms of protests, resistance, direct action like NO TAV movement and Occupy Wall Street. A timely book which allows for a much needed new engagement in contemporary debates of cosmopolitanism, we learn how practical resistance to totalizing/hegemonic claims is generated, and how dissident thinking might contribute to new, enriched ways of conceiving the non-totalizing foundations of cosmopolitanism. An innovative look at what lessons can scholars of cosmopolitanism learn from dissent/dissident movements, and what the role of dissent in cosmopolitan democracy could be.
Fifteen Years Of Darkness No Complains And Pain
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Author : JUGAL KISHORE SHARMA
language : en
Publisher: JUGAL KISHORE SHARMA
Release Date : 2022-10-08
Fifteen Years Of Darkness No Complains And Pain written by JUGAL KISHORE SHARMA and has been published by JUGAL KISHORE SHARMA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-08 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Xiaobo received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, during a lengthy prison sentence for his political opposition. During this detention, he also published the poetry collection June Fourth Elegies (Graywolf Press, 2012) and the essay collection No Enemies, No Hatred (Harvard University Press, 2012). He died, still in custody, on July 13, 2017. In fact, though, Liu had become frustrated with the protesters, whom he found to display authoritarian behavior patterns themselves and who did not much warm to his counsel of pacifism and tolerance. After the June Fourth massacre he blamed himself for taking temporary refuge with a foreign friend in the diplomatic quarter while many other people—mostly workers, not students—remained in danger on the streets, trying to help others. For the rest of his life he felt ashamed of himself for fleeing to safety and haunted by the “lost souls” of people who died that night. . . . Liu Xiaobo’s essays between 1999, when he left the labor camp, and 2008, when he entered prison for the third and final time, show his mature thought and are the heart of his intellectual legacy. He produced this writing under the constant strain of police surveillance and harassment. Police cars parked at his door regularly. Any essay he published on the internet or in an overseas magazine was held against him—and he knew it would be—but he kept writing anyway. Most remarkably, he continually maintained his political activism as well as his writing. He often left home to encourage and aid groups who were protesting, to visit the Tiananmen Mothers, or to promote petitions and open letters including, in his last fateful effort, Charter 08. During the same years most other dissident intellectuals chose to go abroad or, if they stayed in China, to write quietly at home, keeping a distance from the dangers of taking action. Liu Xiaobo went ahead with both writing and activism as if the immense pressures in the environment simply were not there. This characteristic was unique among his peers; it is what people meant by “iron” in calling him the “iron man of democracy.”
The People S Republic Of Amnesia
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Author : Louisa Lim
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014
The People S Republic Of Amnesia written by Louisa Lim and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with HISTORY categories.
An NPR correspondent explains how the Tiananmen Square massacre changed China, and how China changed the events of that day by rewriting its own history.
I Have No Enemies
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Author : Perry Link
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2023-06-20
I Have No Enemies written by Perry Link and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Late one night in December 2008, police arrived at the home of Liu Xiaobo—China’s leading dissident, a key figure in the prodemocracy manifesto Charter 08—and took him away. When Liu won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize as a political prisoner, the award was bestowed on an empty chair. Inside China, the regime sought to erase every trace of his existence. Liu died of liver cancer in 2017 without ever having been allowed to return home. I Have No Enemies is the definitive biography of Liu Xiaobo, offering a meticulously researched account of the twists and turns of a remarkable life. Perry Link and Wu Dazhi explore Liu’s upbringing, immersion in classical Chinese poetry and philosophy, bold challenges to literary conformity, and involvement in democratic movements. They trace the lifelong evolution of his thinking and chronicle his persecution, incarceration, and death. I Have No Enemies emphasizes Liu’s principled commitment to dissent and the significance of the example he set in China and around the world. Liu was a farsighted strategist whose ultimate goal was “to change a regime by changing a society.” In Tiananmen Square, he showed others how to face down armed soldiers; in daily life, he looked for ways to build a more democratic culture. A powerful record of Liu’s life and times, this book also tells the story of a generation of Chinese intellectuals who sought a better way forward.
Yearbook Of Chinese Theology 2017
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Author : Paulos Z. Huang
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-09-11
Yearbook Of Chinese Theology 2017 written by Paulos Z. Huang and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-11 with Religion categories.
Yearbook of Chinese Theology is an international, ecumenical and fully peer-reviewed series for Chinese theology in English. It is designed to meet the growing demand for the studies of Christianity as an academic discipline in the Chinese context in the area of Biblical Studies, Church History, Systematic Theology, Practical Theology and Comparative Religions. The Yearbook also features articles exploring wider issues in church and society. The main focus of the Yearbook is on the interdisciplinary, contextual and cross-cultural studies of the above five disciplines.
Berkshire Dictionary Of Chinese Biography Volume 4
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Author : Kerry Brown
language : en
Publisher: Berkshire Publishing Group
Release Date : 2015-05-01
Berkshire Dictionary Of Chinese Biography Volume 4 written by Kerry Brown and has been published by Berkshire Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-01 with History categories.
The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography (1979-2015) provides a riveting new way to understand twenty-first-century China and a personal look at the changes that have taken place since the Reform and Opening Up era started in 1979. One hundred key individuals from this period were selected by an international group of experts, and the stories were written by more than 70 authors in 14 countries. The authors map the paths taken by these individuals-some rocky, some meandering, some fateful-and in telling their stories give contemporary Chinese history a human face. The editors have included-with the advice of myriad experts around the world-not only the life stories of politicians and government officials, who play a crucial role in the development of the country, but the stories of cultural figures including, film directors, activists, writers, and entrepreneurs from the mainland China, Hong Kong, and also from Taiwan. The "Greater China" that comes through in this volume has diverse ideas and identities. It is often contradictory, sometimes fractious, and always full of creative human complexity. Some of the lives rendered here are heroic. Some are tragic, and many are inspirational. Some figures come in for trenchant criticism, and others are celebrated with a sense of wonder and awe. Like previous volumes of the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, this volume includes a range of appendices, including a pronunciation guide, a bibliography, and a timeline of key events.
No Enemies No Hatred
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Author : Xiaobo Liu
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-16
No Enemies No Hatred written by Xiaobo Liu and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-16 with Literary Collections categories.
When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on December 10, 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was in Jinzhou Prison, serving an eleven-year sentence for what Beijing called “incitement to subvert state power.” In Oslo, actress Liv Ullmann read a long statement the activist had prepared for his 2009 trial. It read in part: “I stand by the convictions I expressed in my ‘June Second Hunger Strike Declaration’ twenty years ago—I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me are my enemies.” That statement is one of the pieces in this book, which includes writings spanning two decades, providing insight into all aspects of Chinese life. These works not only chronicle a leading dissident’s struggle against tyranny but enrich the record of universal longing for freedom and dignity. Liu speaks pragmatically, yet with deep-seated passion, about peasant land disputes, the Han Chinese in Tibet, child slavery, the CCP’s Olympic strategy, the Internet in China, the contemporary craze for Confucius, and the Tiananmen massacre. Also presented are poems written for his wife, Liu Xia, public documents, and a foreword by Václav Havel. This collection is an aid to reflection for Western readers who might take for granted the values Liu has dedicated his life to achieving for his homeland.
Lovecidal
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Author : Trinh T. Minh-ha
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2016-07-18
Lovecidal written by Trinh T. Minh-ha and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-18 with Philosophy categories.
In this new work, renowned feminist filmmaker and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha offers a lyrical, philosophical meditation on the global state of endless war and the violence inflicted by the imperial need to claim victory. She discusses the rise of the police state as linked, for example, to U.S. military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, or to China’s occupation of Tibet, examining legacies of earlier campaigns and the residual effects of the war on terror. She also takes up the shifting dynamics of peoples’ resistance to acts of militarism and surveillance as well as social media and its capacity to inform and mobilize citizens around the world. At once an engaging treatise and a creative gesture, Lovecidal probes the physical and psychic conditions of the world and shows us a society that is profoundly heartsick. Taking up with those who march both as and for the oppressed—who walk with the disappeared to help carry them forward—Trinh T. Minh-ha engages the spiritual and affective dimensions of a civilization organized around the rubrics of nonstop governmental subjugation, economic austerity, and highly technologized military conflict. In doing so, she clears a path for us to walk upon. Along with our every step, the world of the disappeared lives on.