Full Description
The most distinguished Chinese journalist of the past fifty years, Liu Binyan has earned the sobriquet "China's conscience." Between 1956 and 1987, there were nine years during which the Communist Party of China allowed Liu to write the truth as he saw it. Expelled from the Party in 1957, later re-admitted and expelled again, he has lived in exile since 1988. He has continued indefatigably to read, think, and write about his beloved China: the saga of its modern history, the moral wasteland of its present condition, and its place in the global order. In Two Kinds of Truth Liu reflects on these issues and turns his incisive intellect to such topics as the unseen consequences of the Cold War, the roots of global terrorism, and whether "socialism with a human face" is possible. This volume reprints the 1983 collection People or Monsters? and offers four new essays and a lengthy interview with Perry Link.
Contents
Editor's Note
An Interview with Liu BinyanPerry Link
Part I. Speech to the Congress of Literature and Art Workers
Listen Carefully to the Voice of the PeopleTranslated by Kyna Rubin
Part II. Reportage
People or Monsters?Translated by James V. Feinerman
Sound Is Better than SilenceTranslated by Michael S. Duke
The Second Kind of LoyaltyTranslated By Richard W. Bodman
Report on a Void InvestigationTranslated by Perry Link
Part III. Fiction
WarningTranslated by Madelyn Ross
The Fifth Man in the OvercoatTranslated by John S. Rohsenow
Part IV. Review Essays
An Unnatural DisasterTranslated by Perry Link
A Great Leap Backward?Translated by Perry Link
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