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Mr. Wei’s Portrait

Author(s): Ian Buruma
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: Wei Jingsheng; Xu Wenli; Li Yi Zhe Manifest; Li Lu; Tiananmen Square; Chinese Cultural Revolution; Communist China; Chinese dissidents; zige; Wang Xizhe; the Fifth Modernization; Liu Qing; political trials in China; detention in China; Wang Bingzhang.

Summary/Abstract: A reportage about the Chinese dissident Wei Jingsherng who left China after a long detention time. The author makes a comprehensive picture of the dissident movement in China especially since the Tiananmen Square moment, printing out the personalities of the figures on the political opposition scene. If their fight had the same target in China – the Communist oligarchy – abroad their convictions often change into conflicting vanities, because of the zige.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 49-50
  • Page Range: 28-37
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian