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Freedom
- How We Lose It and How We Fight Back
- De: Nathan Law
- Narrado por: Daniel York Loh
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 10
In this dispatch from exile, Hong Kong political activist Nathan Law explores the meaning of freedom - and shows how easily freedoms can be eroded or dismantled. Freedom is fragile - it is not a given, and each generation must fight to protect it, whether in emerging democracies or in the Western world, where freedom is too often taken for granted.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My comments can get me jailed
- De Anonymous User en 02-22-22
- Freedom
- How We Lose It and How We Fight Back
- De: Nathan Law
- Narrado por: Daniel York Loh
Account of a Hero
Revisado: 07-16-22
Nathan Law: truly an exceptional man, a salient writer, and a hero of the modern free world.
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Young China
- How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World
- De: Zak Dychtwald
- Narrado por: Zak Dychtwald
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
A close-up look at the Chinese generation born after 1990, exploring through personal encounters how young Chinese feel about everything from money and sex to their government, the West, and China’s shifting role in the world - not to mention their love affair with food, karaoke, and travel. Set primarily in the Eastern 2nd tier city of Suzhou and the budding Western metropolis of Chengdu, the book charts the touchstone issues this young generation faces.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Erudite, enthralling, and engaging!
- De Anonymous User en 03-22-19
- Young China
- How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World
- De: Zak Dychtwald
- Narrado por: Zak Dychtwald
The Best Part is What the Author Didn't Intend
Revisado: 04-16-22
This is undoubtedly an excellent survey of young Chinese society from food, to family expectations, to work, play, and how our young Chinese friends see themselves and their futures. The narrative is sympathetic, entertaining, intriguing, humanizing, and relatable. So immersed in Chinese society is the author that he unconsciously and uncritically parrots the incorrect statement that Taiwan is part of China. This almost certainly is not because the author is making a conclusive statement of the facts, but because he is expressing the world as understood by China in a world tainted and molded by Communist Party messaging. The casual references throughout the book of "Taiwan Province" and Taiwan as a piece of China offers no sympathy to the existence of Taiwanese people and how they see themselves, but this is how you know that this is truly an authentic look into modern Chinese society. Taiwan is naturally not a part of China, and suggesting that it is akin to declaring that Ukraine is a part of Russia. This is not a good thing, and it is paving the way for atrocities in the future by the CCP against Taiwan's people, but seeing this uncritical propaganda being passively accepted is the perfect contrast alongside all of the beautiful pieces of sincere Chinese culture. No peoples are all good or all bad, and seeing the bad mixed in with the good is what makes this book so authentic and worthwhile to read. Just read with an eye to reality: Taiwan is not part of China.
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