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The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings (review)

The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings (review) 550 China Review International: Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 1999 Wei Jingsheng. The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings. Edited and translated by Kristina M. Torgeson. New York: Viking, 1997. xxxiv, 283 pp. Hardcover, ISBN 0­670­87249­0. Wei Jingsheng could have lived happily ever after with his family in China. Instead he spent many years in solitary confinement. When he could have escaped into hiding, he chose to defend himself, even though he had little chance for freedom. His tribulations began when, during the 1978­1979 Democracy Wall movement, he boldly declared that the fifth modernization--democracy--is the precondition for all government-launched modernizations (i.e., in agriculture, science, industry, and the military). Even more provocatively, he warned that people should be vigilant lest Deng Xiaoping resume Mao's dictatorial style. For his "counterrevolutionary" writings, as well as an accusation of espionage for leaking military information on the Sino-Vietnamese war to foreign reporters, the twenty-nine-year-old Wei was slapped with a fifteen-year jail sentence. Wei Jingsheng is one of the best-known dissidents in China, renowned for his vehement fight for the promotion of democracy and his persistent stand against human rights abuses. Suspecting that his parole six months before the completion http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings (review)

Lee, Wei-chin
China Review International , Volume 6 (2) – Sep 1, 1999
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550 China Review International: Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 1999 Wei Jingsheng. The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings. Edited and translated by Kristina M. Torgeson. New York: Viking, 1997. xxxiv, 283 pp. Hardcover, ISBN 0­670­87249­0. Wei Jingsheng could have lived happily ever after with his family in China. Instead he spent many years in solitary confinement. When he could have escaped into hiding, he chose to defend himself, even though he had little chance for freedom. His tribulations began when, during the 1978­1979 Democracy Wall movement, he boldly declared that the fifth modernization--democracy--is the precondition for all government-launched modernizations (i.e., in agriculture, science, industry, and the military). Even more provocatively, he warned that people should be vigilant lest Deng Xiaoping resume Mao's dictatorial style. For his "counterrevolutionary" writings, as well as an accusation of espionage for leaking military information on the Sino-Vietnamese war to foreign reporters, the twenty-nine-year-old Wei was slapped with a fifteen-year jail sentence. Wei Jingsheng is one of the best-known dissidents in China, renowned for his vehement fight for the promotion of democracy and his persistent stand against human rights abuses. Suspecting that his parole six months before the completion

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