Troublemaker

by Harry Wu and Hongda Harry Wu

Book Overview

In 1995, Chinese-born American citizen Harry Wu touched off an international incident when he was arrested in China for spying. As rumors swirled that Hillary Clinton's long-planned trip to Beijing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970402996
• ISBN13: 9780970402998
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Newsmax.Com
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Troublemaker: One Man's Crusade Against China's Cruelty, Excellent First Hand Account.

Very Sad and true first hand account of Mr. Wu struggle in China, in a Repressive typical communist system, and how he was and is ever so defiant to that system, As any Freedom Loving Man would, China is Not free, Chinese Capitialism is not Capitialism in any sense. It is still A Totalarian Regime. Cuba,China,N.Korea,Venezuela, Iran,Ecuador,Nicaragua,and many others will one day be free from puppet regimes and That hideous form of government known as Communism and it's cousins.

A review of the system our Liberals want for us

Harry does an excellent job of exposing what it's like to live inside a Socialist system. I say Socialist because there is almost no difference between Socialist and Communist, as evidenced in the writings of Marx, Stalin, and Mao (who all used these words interchangeably). Harry had a small taste of freedom through his father when he was young. As freedom evaporated all around him and his family, he began the long march into work camp incarceration and governmental abuse. Harry had the guts to fight back against a system that suppresses any idea of individual freedom. This is an excellent primer for those who wonder what life would be like should American Leftists get the 'Change' they are clamoring for.

eye-opening account of one man's courage in exposing China

This book is a very interesting and thought provoking account of Harry Wu's courage in travelling to China to try and expose more of the injustices of the Chinese forced labour laogai prisons.

An absolute must-read!

Harry Wu's heroic account of his travels to China to document human rights abuses is an incredible read. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in hearing the truth about China's barbaric policies towards its own citizens. Mr. Wu helps to uncover the socialist mindset held by the Chinese and their leaders which allows them to deny that forced labor exists and that the laogai are actually "reform" camps. I would like to thank Mr. Wu for revealing the truth of what goes on behind the wall of lies that the communists have erected. Throughout the book you will be brought to tears at the inhumanities experienced by the Chinese "workers" and the book brings them vividly to light. It would surprise me if anyone could not understand why after serving over a decade in the camps that Wu would want to return. He makes it clear that he wants noone else to suffer the injustices he has faced. Thank you Mr. Wu. You are truly an American and a hero. I admire you greatly and hope you continue your work.

Compelling reading; a book difficult to put down!

The Chinese have an enormous capacity to absorb and parrot back mistruths, without so much as a blush. I had lunch with one Chinese academic in Beijing not long ago who told me with a straight face that no one died at Tiananmen Square during the 1989 democracy protests. On the face of it, an absurd statement, and yet no less paradoxical than many of the things that the average Chinese says and often times believes. Harry Wu understands this enormous capacity of the Chinese people to adopt a more convenient view of reality, at least for conversational purposes, rather than to face the repression of the Beijing government. After all, Wu is a survivor of 19 years in the Chinese gulag, an unspoken penal system that few Chinese either know about or are willing to acknowledge. For the Westerner who is steeped in the history of the Mao years, China is indeed a puzzle. On the face of it, China resembles very much any other developing capitalist-oriented country. Americans, more than any other people, tend to equate capitalism with democracy. Yet, there are numerous examples of capitalist enterprise economies for which any thoughts of democracy and respect for individual liberties are but a dream. China is simply the latest and biggest example. Bereft of a free press, governed by an undemocratic clique, and endowed with the largest penal system the world has likely ever known, China mystifies us. Harry Wu exposes our myths and misconceptions and argues for Westerners not to brush aside the truths in the pursuit of Asian trade and market share. Many Chinese are antagonized by Wu. China is indeed a better place for the average Chinese than it was during the Mao years. Many Chinese seem to feel that if they just keep quiet, things will slowly continue to get better. Yet, millions of Chinese remain imprisoned, often times for "political" offenses that you or I would find laughable. In the meantime, China is run by unelected elite who, under the guise of capitalism, are allowed to profit from the proceeds of prison labor, while the average Chinese needs to guard his words carefully for fear of becoming a detainee in the "laogai," the Chinese prison labor system.