To Build a Free China: A Citizens Journey

Zhiyong Xu

Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers 2017

To Build a Free China

A Citizens Journey

Zhiyong Xu

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626375918

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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 Movement, Dr. Xu was named one of Asia Weekly's People of the Year in 2005 and one of the Southern People’s Weekly’s Top Ten Young Leaders of China in 2006. His efforts have been considerably less well received, however, by the government of the PRC, and he has been arrested numerous times. Dr. Xu has been serving a four-year prison sentence since 2013 for "gathering a crowd to disrupt order in a public place." His moving statement at the end of his trial, hailed as the China Manifesto, is included in To Build a Free China.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Andrew J. Nathan Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface: Being a True Citizen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 One Life for One Dream Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
2 Village Travels: My Days at the Rural Edition of China Reform Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3 The Death of Sun Zhigang and the Citizen Recommendation to Appeal “Custody and Repatriation” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4 The “Illegal” Life of a Private Enterprise: Defending Sun Dawu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
5 Be True to the Law: Campaigning for a Seat as a People’s Congress Delegate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
6 On Behalf of Free Expression: The Southern Metropolis Daily Case Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
7 We’re in This Together: Life in “Petitioner Village” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
8 The Citizens’ Alliance, or Gongmeng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
9 Returning to China Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
10 What’s Your Motive? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
11 The Prayers of Poshang Village: For Cai Zhuohua and the House Churches of China Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
12 Experience and Reflection: The Gongmeng Tax Case Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
13 In This World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
14 Practice Love on the Road to Justice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
15 The Critic: For My Brother, Teng Biao Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
16 Cherish Your Ballots! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
17 Our 2011 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
18 The Idealists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
19 China’s New Citizen Movement: A Manifesto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
20 I Am a Free Citizen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
21 Hearts Filled with Justice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
22 Ngaba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
23 The New Citizen Movement in 2012 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
24 The Last Ten Years Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
25 China’s Path Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
26 Love Along China’s Borders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
27 For Freedom, Justice, and Love: My Closing Statement to the Court Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
About the Book Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297

Language: English
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 297

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Published: January 1, 2017
ISBN: 9781626375918