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Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing

Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing

by IanBuruma (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

Who speaks for China? Is it the old men of the politburo or activists like Wei Jingshsheng, who spent eighteen years in prison for writing a emocratic manifesto? Is China's future to be fund amid the boisterous sleaze of an electoral cmpaign in Taiwan, or in the manoeuvres by which ordinary residents of Beijing quietly resist the authority of the state?

These are among the questions that Ian Buruma poses in this enlightening and often moving tour of Chinese dissidence. Travelling through the U.S., Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the People's Republic, Ian Buruma tells the stories of Chinese rebels who dare to stand up to their rulers, exploring their chances of success in the face of the most powerful dictatorship on earth. From the exiles of Tiananmen to the hidden Christians of rural China, he brings alive the human dimension to their struggles and reveals the world's most secretive superpower through the eyes of its dissidents.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 01 Jun 2009
ISBN 10: 1843549638
ISBN 13: 9781843549635
Book Overview: Ian Buruma approaches China through the stories of its dissidents: ordinary, brave people who oppose a regime that uses repression in the name of social order. What does dissidence mean in an authoritarian society? And what chance do they have of succeeding in the face of the largest remaining dictatorship on earth?

Media Reviews
Ian Buruma is a powerful storyteller. . . . Bad Elements is the best book yet written on Chinese dissidents. -- The New York Review of Books [Buruma is] one of the sharpest minds writing about Asia. . . . A brilliant examination . . . impressively comprehensive. --The Wall Street Journal [Buruma's] sharply observed and well-drawn portraits of obstinate, courageous and sometimes flawed people inspire admiration and compassion....A vivid history of repression and resistance. --The New York Times Book Review An intellectual travelogue that gradually circles Beijing before ending up there...Buruma has a good eye for the small ironies of exile. -- The Washington Post Book World
Author Bio
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College in New York state. His previous books include God's Dust, The Wages of Guilt, Anglomania and Murder in Amsterdam, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Current Interest Book and was shortlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize. He was the recipient of the 2008 Shorenstein Journalism Award, which honoured him for his distinguished body of work, and the 2008 Erasmus Prize.