This is an astonishing book, and one of the finest examples of Chinese dissident literature that I can think of off the top of my head. Wei has the guts to write letters to the Chinese leadership protesting his innocense, and using communist writings and their own words to bolster his case. Anyway, I came across the following paragraph. Does some of what he writes about sound familiar? Fatheadedness has so reduced everything but politics into matters of such insignificance that the sole factor determining human existence in China is politics. Therefore, people have little choice but to waste most...
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Been re-reading Wei Jingsheng's "The Courage To Stand Alone"
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