Two kinds of truth : stories and reportage from China

xi, 304 p.

Includes bibliographical references

Angaben zum Inhalt: China's "conscience" and most distinguished journalist looks back at the saga of China's modern history and its place within an evolving global context. 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. Liu Binyan left school after ninth grade for lack of tuition money. He continued to read, taught himself Russian, joined the Communist Party underground in 1943, and eventually emerged as 20th-century China's most distinguished investigative journalist.

Inhalt: Editor's Note / Perry Link -- An Interview with Liu Binyan / Perry Link -- Pt. I. SPEECH TO THE CONGRESS OF LITERATURE AND ART WORKERS: Listen Carefully to the Voice of the People / Translated by Kyna Rubin and Perry Link -- Pt. II. REPORTAGE -- People or Monsters? / Translated by James V. Feinerman, with Perry Link -- Sound Is Better than Silence / Translated by Michael S. Duke -- The Second Kind of Loyalty / Translated By Richard W. Bodman -- Report on a Void Investigation / Translated by Perry Link -- Pt. III. FICTION -- Warning / Translated by Madelyn Ross, with Perry Link -- The Fifth Man in the Overcoat / Translated by John S. Rohsenow, with Perry Link -- Pt. IV. REVIEW ESSAYS -- An Unnatural Disaster / Translated by Perry Link -- A Great Leap Backward? / Translated by Perry Link -- Contributors