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A Sparrow's Voice
Living Through China's Turmoil in the 20th Century
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September 1999 - Despite the Tien An Men Square crackdown, life in China today is freer and more hopeful than it was before 1989, asserts a well-known Chinese sculptor who has just published his autobiography.
"Especially after the so-called Cultural Revolution, people, even Communist Party members...they don't want to go back to the old way," Tommy Jieqin Wu tells National Public Radio correspondent Mary Kay Magistad, in an interview to appear soon in an online magazine to coincide with the publication of A Sparrow's Voice: Living through China's Turmoil in the 20th Century. "They suffered too. No one wants to go back."
"Mao should take most of the responsibility" for China's decades of upheaval, he says. "And now, everything's changed. There's still a long way to go. There are lots and lots of problems. Some of them are very serious, like corruption. Something you cannot solve in one day."
Tommy Jieqin Wu was born in Chongqing in 1927. His courageous autobiography is a remarkable account of one man's personal experience of China's turmoil in the 20th century.
Mr. Jieqin Wu grew up above his family's movie house, until the Japanese invaded in 1937. He then joined the Chinese Air Corps to defend his country in World War II and eventually trained in the United States.
After returning to China, he was labeled a Rightist and became unwillingly entangled in the country's civil war. He suffered years of political persecution, incarceration, and separation from his family.
A Sparrow's Voice captures the experiences and insights of this remarkable man.
NPR correspondent Mary Kay Magistad's audio interview with Tommy Jieqin Wu will be available, along with a transcript and an excerpt from A Sparrow's Voice, on BlueEar.com: Global Writing Worth Reading (http://www.BlueEar.com) beginning September 13.
Tommy Jieqin Wu is available for further interviews.
For more information, please visit the following web sites:
A Sparrow's Voice - http://www.mirhouse.com/sparrow.html
Tommy Jieqin Wu - http://www.mirhouse.com/tommy.html
Synopsis - http://www.mirhouse.com/parrowsynopsis.html
Foreword - http://www.mirhouse.com/sparrowforeword.html
Reviews - http://www.mirhouse.com/sparrowreviews.html
or contact his publisher, Mir House, Inc, at the contact points below.
Mir House, Inc.
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Phone: 888/MIRHOUSE [647-4687]
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A Sparrow's Voice - Living Through China's Turmoil in the 20th Century
Tommy Jieqin Wu
5 x 8, Perfect Bound, 300 Pages
ISBN: 0-9645464-0-5
Retail Price: $14.00 USD
Copyright 1999
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