Freedom
How We Lose It and How We Fight Back
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A timely manifesto on freedom from Hong Kong’s leading pro-democracy activist, Nathan Law, a Nobel Prize nominee.
In this dispatch from exile, Hong Kong political activist Nathan Law explores the meaning of freedom - and shows how easily freedoms can be eroded or dismantled. Freedom is fragile - it is not a given, and each generation must fight to protect it, whether in emerging democracies or in the Western world, where freedom is too often taken for granted.
Law sets out to prove the value of what we take to be inherently bestowed upon us as human beings, and to expose the Chinese government as it barricades its citizens from enjoying freedom. He lays out how the government controls what people know and are allowed to think, suppresses the truth, and undermines democratic processes by censoring its own members. If freedom is a basic human right, then why were lawyers, journalists, and activists being jailed, and why has Nathan Law been labeled a wanted fugitive?
Rooted in his own experience as a former elected official and student leader of the Umbrella Movement, Law explores not just how important freedom is in principle for human beings to thrive, but how it is put into practice. What does it mean to be able to speak freely, and what happens when the concept collapses? How can the law both protect and abolish our freedoms? And why should we place such importance on free and fair elections? What does it mean to be truly free? Nathan Law has worked tirelessly to apply pressure in order to reshape freedom in Hong Kong, because it is with freedom that we’ll live as we’re meant to be.
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Nathan Law: truly an exceptional man, a salient writer, and a hero of the modern free world.
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Excellence.
If you want to see the playbook for modern European/American Dictatorial politics, look no further.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-22-22
My comments can get me jailed
I give this book 5 stars yet I'm worried about writing down my honest comments here, simply because of the fact that I'm living in a place where expressing one's thoughts in words can get one persecuted. No bookshops in Hong Kong dare to carry this book. Welcome to New Hong Kong.
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- Gio
- 01-05-22
Moving and eye opening
Listening to reports of protests in Hong Kong paints a picture of people fighting oppression. Nathan gives me insight into what I take for granted and struggles they I never fought.
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