Description: Further DetailsTitle: My Life in PrisonCondition: NewEAN: 9781442212220ISBN: 9781442212220Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/16/2012Item Height: 236mmItem Length: 161mmItem Width: 23mmItem Weight: 485gAuthor: Jiang QishengLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Memoirs of a Chinese Political DissidentISBN-10: 1442212225Description: In 1999, leading dissident Jiang Qisheng was given a four-year sentence for inviting the Chinese people to light candles to honor the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Drawn with indignant intensity from Jiang’s time in prison, his memoirs record chilling observations of the modern “civilized” Beijing jails in which he was held. While awaiting a farcical trial, he shares a cell crowded with common criminals, among them a murderer who had dismembered his victim with an electric saw. Along with intriguing vignettes of his fellow prisoners, Jiang describes the brutal conditions they all faced: inmates led to execution with necks corded to silence them, savage fights between prisoners, and rare moments of unexpected kindness. He describes the frequent beatings by guards, the use of the electric prod, and a dehumanizing regime aimed at humiliation and the destruction of individual personality. After he is sentenced, conditions are even worse. Prisoners, used as slave labor, become bitterly exhausted and emaciated, while facing new depths of mental degradation. Throughout, however, Jiang retains his dignity, his detached and perceptive intelligence, and his concern for his fellow sufferers, guards included. Written in a light and ironic style, Jiang’s stories of prisoners, many of whom come from the most primitive and impoverished layer of Chinese society, are related with vividness, insight, humor, and compassion. Dismayed by their fatalistic docility, the author asks, “Where lies China’s hope? Can democracy ever take root in China?” The answers, surely, lie in the voices of those, like Jiang, who dare to speak out.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: BiographyTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: My Life in Prison
Title: My Life in Prison
EAN: 9781442212220
ISBN: 9781442212220
Release Date: 02/16/2012
Release Year: 2012
Subtitle: Memoirs of a Chinese Political Dissident
ISBN-10: 1442212225
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: My Life in Prison : Memoirs of a Chinese Political Dissident
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Topic: Human Rights, History & Theory, Regional Studies, General, Asia / China, Political, World / Asian
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 17.1 Oz
Author: Jiang Qisheng
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
