To Build a Free China : : A Citizens Journey / / Zhiyong Xu.
The story of China's rights movement—a struggle for basic human rights and democracy that, despite harsh repression, has endured for more than a decade—unfolds in Xu Zhiyong's compelling personal memoir. In recognition of his work as an activist, lawyer, and founder of the New Citizen Move...
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Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Preface: Being a True Citizen
- 1 One Life for One Dream
- 2 Village Travels: My Days at the Rural Edition of China Reform
- 3 The Death of Sun Zhigang and the Citizen Recommendation to Appeal “Custody and Repatriation”
- 4 The “Illegal” Life of a Private Enterprise: Defending Sun Dawu
- 5 Be True to the Law: Campaigning for a Seat as a People’s Congress Delegate
- 6 On Behalf of Free Expression: The Southern Metropolis Daily Case
- 7 We’re in This Together: Life in “Petitioner Village”
- 8 The Citizens’ Alliance, or Gongmeng
- 9 Returning to China
- 10 What’s Your Motive?
- 11 The Prayers of Poshang Village: For Cai Zhuohua and the House Churches of China
- 12 Experience and Reflection: The Gongmeng Tax Case
- 13 In This World
- 14 Practice Love on the Road to Justice
- 15 The Critic: For My Brother, Teng Biao
- 16 Cherish Your Ballots!
- 17 Our 2011
- 18 The Idealists
- 19 China’s New Citizen Movement: A Manifesto
- 20 I Am a Free Citizen
- 21 Hearts Filled with Justice
- 22 Ngaba
- 23 The New Citizen Movement in 2012
- 24 The Last Ten Years
- 25 China’s Path
- 26 Love Along China’s Borders
- 27 For Freedom, Justice, and Love: My Closing Statement to the Court
- Index
- About the Book