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Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now

Autor Joshua Wong, Jason Y. Ng
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 ian 2020

Bazându-ne pe documentația din sfera drepturilor omului și a științelor politice, Unfree Speech se prezintă ca un document esențial pentru înțelegerea mecanismelor de rezistență civilă într-un context autoritar. Reținem că această lucrare nu este doar o biografie, ci un manifest structurat riguros în trei secțiuni care îmbină retrospectiva istorică a protestelor studențești din Hong Kong cu experiența personală a detenției politice. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Joshua Wong și Jason Y. Ng reușesc să transforme experiența locală a Mișcării Umbrelelor într-o lecție globală despre fragilitatea democrației. Merită menționat că structura cărții oferă o perspectivă rară prin includerea scrisorilor scrise de Wong în perioada în care a fost deținut politic, oferind o dimensiune intimă și etică analizei politice. Această abordare completează portofoliul lui Jason Y. Ng, care în Hong Kong Noir explora identitatea orașului prin literatură, aici optând pentru o analiză directă a mediului activist. Cartea servește drept o alternativă documentată la Umbrellas in Bloom de Jason Y. Ng pentru cursurile de sociologie politică sau relații internaționale, cu avantajul că aduce la zi evenimentele din perspectiva liderului mișcării și include contextul global post-2019. În comparație cu No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference de Greta Thunberg, care se concentrează pe discursuri mobilizatoare despre mediu, Unfree Speech oferă o analiză mai tehnică a tacticilor de protest și a consecințelor juridice ale activismului. Tonul este precis, evitând sentimentalismul în favoarea unei argumentații despre necesitatea protejării libertății de exprimare la nivel mondial, fiind o lectură relevantă pentru curriculumul de drept internațional și științe sociale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780753554791
ISBN-10: 0753554798
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 126 x 199 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Poisoned Pen Press

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Descriere

'Joshua Wong is the future that has already come. ... Together we are one loud voice that cannot be silenced.' - Greta Thunberg'If we want freedom, we need to learn from Hong Kong.

With values, tactics, and courage, Joshua Wong shows us the way.' - Timothy Snyder- Introduction by Ai Weiwei - An urgent manifesto for global democracy from the leading 23-year-old Hong Kong activist - Nobel Peace Prize nominee and TIME, Forbes and Fortune world leader. At what point do you stand up to power?When he was 14, Joshua Wong made history. While the adults stayed silent, Joshua staged the first ever student protest in Hong Kong to oppose National Education - and won.

Since then, Joshua has led the Umbrella Movement, founded a political party, and rallied the international community around the anti-Extradition Bill protests, which have seen 2 million people - more than a quarter of the population - take to Hong Kong's streets. His actions have sparked worldwide attention, earned him a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, and landed him in jail twice. Composed in three parts, Unfree Speech chronicles Joshua's path to activism, collects the letters he wrote as a political prisoner, and closes with a powerful and urgent call for all of us globally to defend our democratic values.

When we stay silent, no one is safe. When we free our speech, our voice becomes one.


Descriere scurtă

'Joshua Wong is a brave and inspiring young leader.' - GRETA THUNBERG

Imprisoned on 2 December 2020 for the third time, read Joshua Wong's urgent and powerful story - the Hong Konger fighting for democracy.


INTRODUCTION BY AI WEIWEI, FOREWORD BY CHRIS PATTEN

Unfree Speech is Joshua's urgent call for us to defend our democratic values, whoever we are.

It chronicles Joshua's path to activism, collects the letters he wrote as a political prisoner, and closes with a powerful and urgent manifesto for us to defend our democracies at time of global flux and change.

Joshua Wong made history when he was 14. While the adults stayed silent, Joshua staged the first ever student protest in Hong Kong to oppose National Education - and won.

Since then, he led the Umbrella Movement, founded a political party, and rallied the international community around the Hong Kong protests, which saw 2 million people take to the streets. Now, he is in jail again. His actions have sparked worldwide attention and earned him a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, as he continues to fight for what he believes in.

His message is clear: when we stay silent, no one is safe. When we free our speech, our voice becomes one.

'If we want freedom, we need to learn from Hong Kong. With values, tactics, and courage, Joshua Wong shows us the way.' - Timothy Snyder, bestselling author of On Tyranny

'A guide to mobilising for democracy and representation in and far beyond Hong Kong.' - Julia Lovell, award-winning author of Maoism

- The Times Book of the Week -
- Observer Book of the Week -
- Named by the Financial Times as one of the 50 people who shaped the decade -

Notă biografică

Joshua Wong (Author)
Joshua Wong was born in 1996. He has been named by TIME, Fortune, Prospect and Forbes as one of the world¿s most influential leaders. In 2018 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his leading role in the Umbrella Revolution. He is Secretary-General of Demosisto, a pro-democracy organisation which he founded in 2016 that advocates for self-determination in Hong Kong. Joshua came onto the political scene in 2011 aged 14, when he founded Scholarism and successfully protested against the enforcement of Chinese National Education in Hong Kong. He has been arrested by the Chinese state numerous times for his protesting and activism and has served over 100 days in jail. He has been the subject of two documentaries, including the Netflix original documentary, Joshua: Teenager vs Superpower. This is the first time his work has been published in English.

Jason Y. Ng (Author)
Jason Y. Ng is a lawyer, activist, newspaper columnist, former president of PEN Hong Kong and author of three acclaimed books charting Hong Kong¿s post-colonial development, HONG KONG State of Mind, No City for Slow Men, and Umbrellas in Bloom. He has followed Joshuäs story from its beginnings in 2011, and has continued to report and advocate for his cause ever since.

Ai Weiwei (Introducer)
Ai Weiwei is one of the world's most important living artists. Born in 1957, he lives in Cambridge, UK.

Allan H. Barr is the author of a study in Chinese of a literary inquisition in the early Qing dynasty, Jiangnan yijie: Qing ren bixia de Zhuangshi shi'an, and the translator of several books by contemporary Chinese authors, including Yu Hua's China in Ten Words and Han Han's This Generation. He teaches Chinese at Pomona College in California.