Two Kinds of Truth
Stories and Reportage from China
The most distinguished Chinese journalist of the past fifty years, LiuBinyan has earned the sobriquet China's conscience. Between 1956 and1987, there were nine years during which the Communist Party of China allowed Liu towrite the truth as he saw it. Expelled from the Party in 1957, later re-admitted andexpelled again, he has lived in exile since 1988. He has continued indefatigably toread, think, and write about his beloved China: the saga of its modern history, themoral wasteland of its present condition, and its place in the global order. In TwoKinds of Truth Liu reflects on these issues and turns his incisive intellect to suchtopics as t…
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Weitere Autoren: Link, Perry (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-253-21861-2
- EAN: 9780253218612
- Produktnummer: 2277519
- Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.8 cm 518 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 518
Über den Autor
Liu Binyan left school after ninth grade for lack of tuition money. He continued to read, taught himself Russian, joined the Communist Party underground in 1943, and eventually emerged as 20th-century China's leading investigative journalist.Perry Link is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. His most recent book is The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System.
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