| Two Kinds of Truth: Stories and Reportage from China Contributor(s): Liu, Binyan (Editor), Link, Perry (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0253218616 ISBN-13: 9780253218612 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $23.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2006 Annotation: The most distinguished Chinese journalist of the past fifty years, Liu Binyan has earned the sobriquet "China's conscience." Between 1956 and 1987, there were nine years during which the Communist Party of China allowed Liu to write the truth as he saw it. Expelled from the Party in 1957, later re-admitted and expelled again, he has lived in exile since 1988. He has continued indefatigably to read, think, and write about his beloved China: the saga of its modern history, the moral wasteland of its present condition, and its place in the global order. In Two Kinds of Truth Liu reflects on these issues and turns his incisive intellect to such topics as the unseen consequences of the Cold War, the roots of global terrorism, and whether "socialism with a human face" is possible. This volume reprints the 1983 collection People or Monsters? and offers four new essays and a lengthy interview with Perry Link. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - China - History | Essays - Political Science | Essays |
| Dewey: 895.135 |
| LCCN: 2006003547 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.16" W x 9.16" (0.98 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 |
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| Publisher Description: The most distinguished Chinese journalist of the past fifty years, Liu Binyan has earned the sobriquet China's conscience. Between 1956 and 1987, there were nine years during which the Communist Party of China allowed Liu to write the truth as he saw it. Expelled from the Party in 1957, later re-admitted and expelled again, he has lived in exile since 1988. He has continued indefatigably to read, think, and write about his beloved China: the saga of its modern history, the moral wasteland of its present condition, and its place in the global order. In Two Kinds of Truth Liu reflects on these issues and turns his incisive intellect to such topics as the unseen consequences of the Cold War, the roots of global terrorism, and whether socialism with a human face is possible. This volume reprints the 1983 collection People or Monsters? and offers four new essays and a lengthy interview with Perry Link. |