Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern ChinaKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 8 mrt 2005 - 336 pagina's In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize—winning journalist Ian Johnson tells the stories of three ordinary Chinese citizens moved to extraordinary acts of courage: a peasant legal clerk who filed a class-action suit on behalf of overtaxed farmers, a young architect who defended the rights of dispossessed homeowners, and a bereaved woman who tried to find out why her elderly mother had been beaten to death in police custody. Representing the first cracks in the otherwise seamless façade of Communist Party control, these small acts of resistance demonstrate the unconquerable power of the human conscience and prophesy an increasingly open political future for China. |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
adherents allowed appeal arrested asked Beijing believe Brother buildings Bureau called capital Chen China Chinese Chinese architecture Communist court courtyard Cultural decided developers didn't early example exercise face Falun Gong Fang farmers Feng followed foreign friends front give government's hand head heard hundred interested jail knew later lawyer leaders letter lived looked Ma's Master meet mother officials old city organized party past peasants person planning police political practice Professor protests Public Public Security Bureau qigong religion road rule Security seemed showed side square started stopped street talk temples thought thousands told took town trying turned village walked walls Weifang Yulin Zhang Zhao