To Build a Free China : : A Citizens Journey / / Zhiyong Xu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Xu, Zhiyong,
• MitwirkendeR: Nathan, Andrew J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (297 p.)

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...

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