Book Review

The EU’s Human Rights Dialogue with China: Quiet Diplomacy and its Limits – A Book Review by Sophie Richardson

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July 25, 2014

The EU’s Human Rights Dialogue with China: Quiet Diplomacy and its Limits – A Book Review by Sophie Richardson

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Underestimating Bad Faith It’s been a quarter of a century since the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre in China, one of the events that spurred governments around the world into putting human rights on their foreign policy agendas. And since that time, diplomats, activists, scholars, and others have debated...

Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development – A Book Review by Jonathan Mirsky

tw — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:38:52 +0000

July 25, 2014

Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development – A Book Review by Jonathan Mirsky

China Rights Forum

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This book’s sub-title hints at Emily T. Yeh’s main point: Tibet is being transformed by the Chinese occupation, which Beijing maintains is an act of generosity, even a gift, while Tibetans experience the occupation as oppression. This gives rise to one of Ms. Yeh’s propositions drawn from the...

Debating China: The U.S.-China Relationship in Ten Conversations – A Book Review by Jonathan Mirsky

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July 25, 2014

Debating China: The U.S.-China Relationship in Ten Conversations – A Book Review by Jonathan Mirsky

China Rights Forum

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Debating China: The U.S.-China Relationship in Ten Conversations reveals what American and Chinese academics think about both countries’ values and policies. With exceptions, the Chinese insist that whatever is wrong in China stems from foreign exploitation and interference. They see, too, U.S...

The Tragedy of “Liberation” – A Book Review by Roger Garside

tw — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:57:31 +0000

December 30, 2013

The Tragedy of “Liberation” – A Book Review by Roger Garside

China Rights Forum

Book Review

This book demolishes one of the last surviving myths about communist rule in China: that there was a “Golden Era” from the time of “liberation” in 1949 until the launch of the Great Leap Forward in 1958. For too many people outside China, the idea has prevailed for too long that this was a period...

For A Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet’s Journey through a Chinese Prison—A Book Review by Paul Mooney

tw — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:09:45 +0000

December 30, 2013

For A Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet’s Journey through a Chinese Prison—A Book Review by Paul Mooney

China Rights Forum

Book Review

I’ve read about a dozen China prison memoirs over the years, and nothing has affected me the way Liao Yiwu’s prison diary has, with its detailed and graphic descriptions of prison life. I attribute the impact of this book to Liao’s skills as a poet, his writer’s nose for detail, and his willingness...

Liao Yiwu

The Killing Fields of China - A Review Essay by Roger Garside

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December 29, 2012

The Killing Fields of China - A Review Essay by Roger Garside

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Censorship

Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962

A Book Review by Andrew J. Nathan

noc — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:20:59 +0000

November 26, 2012

A Book Review by Andrew J. Nathan

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Rights Defense

Liu Xiaobo

A Book Review by Jonathan Mirsky

noc — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:56:02 +0000

November 26, 2012

A Book Review by Jonathan Mirsky

China Rights Forum

Communist Party Of China

A Book Review by Jonathan Mirsky

noc — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:45:50 +0000

November 21, 2012

A Book Review by Jonathan Mirsky

China Rights Forum

Book Review

A Look Back at the Opening of China’s Doors: On Watching “Assignment: China—the Week that Changed the World”

noc — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:52:07 +0000

July 3, 2012

A Look Back at the Opening of China’s Doors: On Watching “Assignment: China—the Week that Changed the World”

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Book Review

Dying in Dignity Is the Last Human Right

noc — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:50:48 +0000

July 9, 2012

Dying in Dignity Is the Last Human Right

China Rights Forum

Book Review

On Reading Wenguang Huang’s The Little Red Guard The Little Red Guard: A Family Memoir Wenguang Huang Penguin/Riverhead April 26, 2012 Hardcover: 262 pages

Book Review: Such Is This World @sars.come

noc — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:48:44 +0000

July 3, 2012

Book Review: Such Is This World @sars.come

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Book Review

Such Is This World @sars.come Hu Fayun Translated by A. E. Clark Ragged Banner Press Publication Date: June 2011 Hardcover: 536 pages; paperback: 528 pages

Book Review: Ethnic Minorities in Modern China

noc — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:04:50 +0000

February 2, 2012

Book Review: Ethnic Minorities in Modern China

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Book Review

Ethnic Minorities in Modern China Four Volumes Edited by Colin Mackerras Routledge March 11, 2011 Hardcover: 1,760 pages

Book Review: Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong

noc — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:34:27 +0000

February 1, 2012

Book Review: Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong

China Rights Forum

Book Review

Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong Christine Loh Hong Kong University Press July 2010 (HC), February 2011 (PB) Hardcover & paperback: 372 pages When Christine Loh was a little girl growing up in Hong Kong, she had a fascination with the Communist Party of China (CPC),...

Book Review: My Life in Prison: Memoirs of a Chinese Political Dissident (Jiang Qisheng)

noc — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:11:29 +0000

November 16, 2011

Book Review: My Life in Prison: Memoirs of a Chinese Political Dissident (Jiang Qisheng)

China Rights Forum

Book Review

My Life in Prison: Memoirs of a Chinese Political Dissident Jiang Qisheng Translated by Professor James Erwin Dew and edited by Naomi May With a foreword by Professor Andrew Nathan and an introduction by Professor Perry Link Rowman & Littlefield Publishers February 16, 2012 Hardcover: 200 pages