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Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom

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Zheng (Jennifer) Zeng was a graduate in science from Beijing University. She was a wife, a mother, and a Communist Party member. But because she followed a spiritual practice called Falun Gong, her life in China was shattered. Adhering to the practice's simple tenets of Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance, she was amazed that the Party would institute a crack down, arrest ...more
Hardcover, 353 pages
Published May 1st 2006 by Soho Press (first published March 1st 2005)
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Sep 11, 2010 rated it it was amazing
An amazing book, I'm horrified that this sort of treatment of a countries citizens goes on in this day and age.
Thank you Jennifer Zeng for opening my eyes.
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“The third poem, 'Enlightened Being', goes like this:
Everyday people don't know me,
I sit in mysterious pass
Amidst greed and desires, no me
After a hundred years, only me.” — 1 likes
“Nobility is the motto of the noble-minded; the base use sordidness as a pass. Base souls cannot comprehend noble hearts and noble actions, nor can they believe that people can live magnanimous lives.” — 0 likes
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