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A woman, whose only crime was following the tenets of
Falun Gong, is “reeducated” through forced labor.
APRIL | Memior
$25 Hardcover
ISBN: 1-56947-421-4
North American Rights: Soho Press
All other rights: Allen & Unwin
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"A glimpse not just of the true
face of the Chinese government but of the threat holiness poses to the powerful….
A useful counterbalance to the reckless enthusiasm of our leaders and media
for the Chinese miracle…. Should be mandatory reading."
—Sydney Morning Herald |
“In Witnessing History,
Zeng provides a rare first-person record of a controversial period in recent
Chinese history.... As Witnessing History chronicles religious persecution,
it is ultimately Zeng’s story. Throughout her narrative, one can trace
the trail of political and personal growth.... It is a remarkable, believable
evolution.”
—Utne |
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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 her and demand that
she recant. After twice being held at a detention center and refusing, she was
sentenced without trial to reeducation through forced labor. Her “enlightenment” —in
part undertaken by fellow prisoners incarcerated for prostitution, pornography
and drug addiction—took the form of beatings, torture with electric prods, starvation,
sleep deprivation, and forced labor. She was compelled to knit for days at a
time, her hands bleeding, to produce goods contracted for sale in the US market.
Many Falun Gong practitioners died under the harsh conditions. Zheng Zeng was
lucky.
Thousands of others remain deprived by an oppressive Chinese government of their freedom of speech and assembly and the freedom to believe as they choose. This is the testament to her ordeal and theirs.
JENNIFER ZENG was born in Sichuan Province, China in
1966. She now lives in Australia.
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