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Heart For Freedom Itpe (2000)

by Chai Ling(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1414364857 (ISBN13: 9781414364858)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

review 1: A Heart For FreedomThe Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident Her Daring Escape and Her Quest to Free China's DaughtersChai LingCopyright 2011A Heart For Freedom by Chai Ling is the story of one young womans searvh for freedom in China innthe days leading up to the Tianmen Square massacre. This book talks about the early days of her education and some of the harsh discline she both witnessed and received. She talks about the dangers of even believing in God in communist China as well as being drugged and raped by a man she looked up to in College but despite reporting it on campus the incident is never investigated which helps her to open her eyes to the need for change. Chai Ling falls in love with a man named Feng in college a man who is marked but he opens he... morer eyes to the need for changes in Chinese society at the time. When Chai Ling comes home for a short break she discovers that her Mother had a nervous break down but her Father seems to underplay the seriousness of the situation.In 1988 the year before the events of Tianmen square Chai Ling and Feng were married. Chai Ling was at Tianmen Square to deliver food and water but within a few hours she would be forever changed she is chased down by the police treated like an animal.This book not only chronicles the story of a young woman who was very active at Tianmen square who experienced first hand the violents there it also tells of the onr child policy and the abortions that were forced upon many woman resulting in an alarming amount of suicides every year.Chai Lings story is a story of determination of faith and of standing up to make changes in a society that needed the change.Five stars for a wonderful book...
review 2: I found this story fascinating because I was not even a teenager when the Tiananman Square incidents happened. I wasn't aware then of the issues, and I'm even less aware of them now. But Chai Ling's first-person account of the student demonstrations, as well as her experiences growing up as a woman in China, are heartbreaking and enlightening.My biggest problem with the book was keeping all the characters straight, and it's probably just me being unfamiliar with Chinese names. Chai Ling mentions a lot of friends and major players in the freedom movement as well as government officials, and I had trouble figuring out who was who as I read.However, the book left me inspired to in some way support Chai Ling's nonprofit All Girls Allowed, which fights for the freedom and value of girls in China. I was horrified to learn of all the forced abortions and suicides by young women who become pregnant out of wedlock or without a birth permit or who violate the one-child policy.It's a sobering book and should make Americans, especially, continue to question China's role in the world and our relationship with them. less

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