Going into the camp was like stepping into hell. It was what we read about at school about Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War. I thought it would never happen again but now it was happening to me.
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Going into the camp was like stepping into hell. It was what we read about at school about Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War. I thought it would never happen again but now it was happening to me.
Although living in a peaceful era, she still had to suffer again and again, bitter, unnecessary and groundless separations that felt like death. Yet she never complained. And she always tried her best to open her arms, arms that were turning older and stiffer, to embrace and offer protection to all her loved ones.
Witnessing History is a tale of courage and conviction in the face of the most gruelling adversity. The story reveals a hidden tragedy that is unfolding behind closed doors in China today.
With the rest of the world blinded by the water’s alluring surface and the pot of gold at the end of China’s economic rainbow, Witnessing History brings to light what is really occurring under the “still surface” of Communist China today.
Their example has brought hope and brightness to a world full of despair and darkness. They are changing China, and will change the world.
It is Zeng’s description of her internal struggle over whether to renounce the practice that carries the most emotional weight. Torn between her commitment to telling the truth, and her desire to be released, she torments herself over whether to publicly repudiate that she believed in so strongly.
I have met Zeng in Melbourne and found her gentle and mild-mannered. Now, while reading of her torment and her determination to defy the authorities in China, I find myself pleading with her: “Why? Why insist on naming yourself ‘Falun Gong’?
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Other than my parents, she was the one who influenced me most, and was almost a mentor for me in many ways.除父母外,她对童年的我影響最大,從許多方面講,她都起到了啓蒙的作用。
If not religion, what is it? I know for certain communism is not the answer. Is Falun Gong the answer? I will have to read the book and see for myself.
If a person is the sum of what they have experienced, then Jennifer Zeng surely amounts to quite a lot.
Witnessing History is a tale of courage and conviction in the face of the most gruelling adversity. The story reveals a hidden tragedy that is unfolding behind closed doors in China today.
I am absolutely in awe of the whole thing - you, your story, how you have chosen to write it and everything else about it.