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  1. luvs to cook
    Virginia Beach, VA
    Age: Over 65
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Great book on Chinese culture, Tiananmen Sq. & God
    July 26, 2013
    luvs to cook
    Virginia Beach, VA
    Age: Over 65
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    This incredible story opens with 3 small incidents that shatter the dreams of a Chinese family: attempt rape of Chai Ling, her beloved watch stolen by police, and the false accusation of her Mom for stealing 2 microscopes. But Chai Ling was determined to make her family proud by doing well in her university studies and got accepted as a graduate student at the Child Psychology Institute of Beijing Normal University. She married Feng, a student leader, and had to abort several babies because they were too young to get a license to have one. Meanwhile, problems started at Tiananmen Square. In an incredible speech Chai Ling urged the students to join in a hunger strike to get freedom and democracy. The students wanted the government to realize that they loved their nation and were sacrificing their health to ask for freedom. They never expected the government would bring tanks to fire on them. Eventually after hiding for a year, Chai Ling and Feng had to flee China on a boat, for the government had their pictures posted everywhere and their escape was miraculous. Once in America Chai Ling found it difficult to get a job with investment banking firms because they were concerned about the China portion of their business. The biggest miracle came when Chai Ling learned about Jesus and found forgiveness for her forced abortions. You truly have to read this book to understand how long they endured government oppression before fleeing, how God revealed Himself to Chai Ling, how terrible the one baby policy in China is, and the importance of Americans helping to transform China to respect basic human rights and freedom to worship.
  2. E W
    Age: Over 65
    Gender: Female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    A Heart for Freedom
    June 30, 2015
    E W
    Age: Over 65
    Gender: Female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    This is truly a fascinating story and anyone who has ever had an abortion can find healing and forgiveness.It makes one very thankful for our freedoms
  3. Kris
    Fairfax, VA
    Age: 45-54
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    See life in a different culture
    June 26, 2013
    Kris
    Fairfax, VA
    Age: 45-54
    Gender: female
    Chai Ling's story brings to light not only the events leading up to Tiananmen Square but also the difficulties of growing up in China, where the sacrifice of personal needs for the needs of the whole was always emphasized. I found it fascinating to read about what was going on from her view point about the massacre, although it was difficult to keep track of who was doing what, when. Equally fascinating was to learn of the hardships she faced after Tiananmen Square, not only for herself but also her family and yet then to see how God has used it and redeemed it for His glory.
  4. eb7bibliophile
    High Desert West
    Age: Over 65
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Courage, Tragedy, Freedom, Faith, and Hope
    June 8, 2013
    eb7bibliophile
    High Desert West
    Age: Over 65
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    This is beautifully written. I became engrossed in her powerful story. I don't think I`ll ever comprehend the way the Chinese think, but Chai Ling`s story gave me more compassion for Chinese women and their heartaches. I felt that she made history very personal. Her description of events made me feel as if I was there. I was touched and inspired by her experiences with forgiveness, faith, and rejuvenation. I understand her struggles with abusive, manipulative men (a bad first marriage), and I understand and am deeply grateful for an all-loving, all-forgiving God. I commend Chai Ling for raising awareness about the Tiananmen Square events, and the plight of Chinese women.
  5. The Little Man in China
    Age: 25-34
    Gender: male
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    A Beautiful Memoir of an Ugly Time
    June 6, 2012
    The Little Man in China
    Age: 25-34
    Gender: male
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 4
    As amazing as it seems, very few Chinese people today have heard of the "Tienanmen Square Massacre" as we know it here in the West. They certainly know the place, and they know that something awful occurred in the early summer of 1989, but their recollection of the events are nothing more than implanted memories, their knowledge nothing more than tainted history. The government has turned the massacre on its head, and all information about the atrocities from within her own controlled borders has been sanitized of governmental fault, and the liberators and revolutionaries, the peaceful, murdered individuals, have become both the instigators and the enemies. Tienanmen Square has essentially become to her newest generations a boring fable of China's past, yet some who know the truth, some who were even there, continue to share their stories and to remind the world that only a few short years ago, the Chinese government massacred thousands of her own children.

    In A Heart for Freedom, author and former student leader and revolutionary, Chai Ling, shares her own story of growing up as a prime candidate for Communist leadership and thought, even attending the greatest university the nation had to offer, but then learning that such an ideology was truly incapable of serving the people it promised to protect. This autobiography takes the reader from Chai Ling's own childhood where her parents, both faithful Communist soldiers and physicians, trained her to love her government really more than life itself. But once she arrived at school and met thinkers of different breeds, her doubts began to rise and her passions for new ideologies began to fester. At one point during her college years, Chai Ling acknowledged that she had doubts about the Party's being the servant of the people, and so began her long, exciting yet painful journey from simple Communist-in-training to student leader, revolutionary, and wanted criminal.

    Throughout her memoir, Chai Ling develops the unknown and unfelt emotions of the oppressed in China, emotions that are all but foreign to those born and raised in the freedom of the United States, and emotions that essentially fueled the fire that drove millions of Chinamen to take a stand against the same government that had starved to death a large percentage of the previous generation during the Cultural Revolution. As she develops these emotions, a reader can feel as if he is standing side-by-side Chai Ling during the most desperate hours of lat May, 1989, in Tienanmen Square. While the entire book is written in matter-of-fact past tense, as if Chai Ling is recounting the events as a witness during a trial, the events are real and the sensations are palpable. Through this book, one can learn much about the bitter realities of a government that "serves" its innumerable, ignorant, and expendable people by silencing their voices, denying their freedom, and attacking their ideals of equality and human rights.

    This book may be one of many on the atrocities of Communist nations the world over during the 20th Century, but Chai Ling also brings a special air to her work by including her journey to faith in Jesus Christ. As such, this book is a fitting read for those interested in history, Communism, revolutions, and Christian biographies.

    ©2011 E.T.
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