Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while serving an eleven-year prison sentence, has helped shatter longstanding barriers to freedom of organization and expression in China. This biography, written by one of his closest friends, retraces Liu Xiaobo’s inspiring life, from his childhood years through his imprisonment. He became terminally ill while incarcerated and died July 13, 2017.

Steel Gate to Freedom: The Life of Liu Xiaobo

Jie, Yu

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

To give hope in uncertain times, this issue of Plough profiles people who have lived courageously. In unsettling times such as these, being told to “take courage” can sound like a grim joke. Yet courage is precisely what we’re in need of today: courage to stand by the truth, and courage to stand by the gospel’s claim that everyone belongs to God, because Jesus has overcome the world. To inspire such courage – and to guard against a failure of nerve or of imagination – this issue of Plough highlights people who have lived courageously. In this issue: • Chinese dissident Yu Jie looks at the challenges facing the church in China. • Cuban pastor Raúl Suárez reveals how encounters with Christians thawed Fidel Castro’s atheism. • Plough pays tribute to NYPD Det. Steven McDonald, who forgave the young shooter who paralyzed him. • Maureen Swinger tells how a young man with severe disabilities became an exceptional teacher. • Evangelical activist D. L. Mayfield finds an unsettling role model in Dorothy Day. • Comic artist Julian Peters illustrates T. S. Eliot’s poem “Little Gidding.” Plus: • Insights on courage from Teresa of Avila, George Bernard Shaw, Meister Eckhart, and Mother Teresa • Original poetry by Christopher Zimmerman • Reviews of Martin Scorsese’s Silence, Mark Sundeen’s The Unsettlers, and Craig Greenfield’s Subversive Jesus • Profiles of Thomas Müntzer, Traudl Wallbrecher, and the Sisters of Life • Art and photography by Nikolay Ge, Boris Ivanovich Kopylov, Taisia Afonina, Wayne Forte, Dave Beckerman, Luca Sartoni, Wu Guanzhong, and Sadao Watanabe Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus’ message into practice and find common cause with others.

Plough Quarterly No. 12 - Courage: Lives of Radical Devotion (Plough Quarterly, 12)

Biographies & Memoirs

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD

Day, Dorothy

Eckhart, Meister

Swinger, Maureen

Peters, Julian

Suárez, Raúl

Hine, Sam

Community & Culture

Plough Publishing House

On December 10, 2010, on stage in Oslo City Hall, an empty chair sat before more than one thousand people, holding only the medal and diploma of the year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner. A larger-than-life photo of a smiling Liu Xiaobo hung in the background. This striking image is now known throughout the world. But who is Liu Xiaobo? For the first time, this biography by renowned Chinese author and close friend Yu Jie offers a first-hand look into the man behind the empty chair. Dissident, prisoner, poet, scholar, Liu was compelled by intolerable circumstances to embark on a campaign of intellectual dissent, becoming in the course of his journey a leading human rights activist and one of the most important political figures in modern history. In the quarter century since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, Liu has been unable to lead a normal life. In this first authorized biography, Yu traces an extraordinary man’s odyssey, from growing up in the northeast and Inner Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution, through his meteoric rise in Beijing’s intellectual circles and his pivotal role in the Tiananmen protests and subsequent imprisonments, to the founding of the controversial Independent Chinese PEN and groundbreaking Charter 08, his poignant relationship with wife Liu Xia, and winning the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. It is also a love story between two poets who, though separated by three hundred miles and eleven years behind bars, are united in their persistence to speak truth to power, inspiring countless others.

From the acclaimed author of Mao's America comes the untold story of how the U.S. fueled the rise of the Chinese Communist Party. One of the most effective anti-communist voices in America today, Xi Van Fleet made waves with her breakout book Mao's America, exposing eerie parallels between China's past and America's present woke revolution. Now, alongside renowned Chinese dissident Yu Jie, she sounds the alarm once more--revealing how the CCP's rise was not just enabled by Soviet Russia but, shockingly, by the United States itself. Understanding this hidden history is essential for Americans in confronting the CCP's global ambitions and stopping the spread of Communism at home. &nbsp; For over a century, progressive and Communist ideologies have steadily infiltrated American society, shaping U.S.-China policies that have, intentionally or not, empowered the CCP. From its founding in 1921 to its brutal takeover of China 28 years later, the CCP's ascent was fueled by foreign support--first from the Soviets, then increasingly from the U.S. After the Sino-Soviet split and the near-collapse of China, the United States emerged as the CCP's primary enabler, helping transform it into the world's second-largest economy and our greatest geopolitical threat. &nbsp; Most Americans remain unaware of their own country's role in the CCP's unprecedented success. While others have explored pieces of this story, no book has revealed the full picture--until now. With meticulous research and unflinching clarity, this book exposes the uncomfortable truth: to effectively counter the CCP, we must first dismantle communist influence at home.

Made in America: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Enabled Communist China and Created Our Greatest Threat

Politics & Social Sciences

Van Fleet, Xi

Politics & Government

Center Street

Tie Mo Tie (Chinese Edition) by Jie Yu. 2003 trade paperback published by Shanghai Sanlan Shudian. Text in Chinese.

Tie Mo Tie (Chinese Edition)

Shanghai Sanlan Shudian

Dian dao de Minguo: Taiwan he Zhongguo du bu ti qi de jin xian dai shi

Da Shi Wen Hua

Robust Design and Assessment of Product and Production by Means of Probabilistic Multi-objective Optimization

Maosheng Zheng

Springer Nature

Delta Sustainability

Systems Theory for Engineering Practice

Probability-Based Multi-objective Optimization for Material Selection

Yi, Wang

Ying Cui

Haipeng Teng

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