(I would like to express my special thanks to the American Bar Association and Carolina Academic Press for kindly providing me with a review copy of Mr. Gao’s memoir. This blog is the first part of my book review of “Unwavering Convictions: Gao Zhisheng’s Ten-Year Torture and Faith in China’s Future.”) Mr. Gao Zhisheng, the […]
Chinese mental hospitals have an euphemistic name: “Ankang”, which literally means “peace and health.” “Peace and Health” hospitals are psychiatric institutions, all of which are administered by China’s Ministry of Public Security, and rumor has it there are about 22 across the country (Lubman, 2016). Ankang hospitals are controlled by the police and used by […]
Chinese New Year is coming soon. It reminds me of my first and also last reunion with the old girls and old boys from high school before the 2008 Chinese New Year. As we chatted and drank tea, the organizer, who used to be our class monitor, causally said, “Yuanming will never make it to […]