The Truth About Its Human Rights Record

China

A well-informed look at the human rights situation in China, published to coincide with - but not exclusively for - the Olympics

Frank Ching has produced a fair minded and well researched review of human rights in China. It is difficult to imagine anyone doing a job better or more comprehensively.

An admirably clear, concrete, and measured account of the human rights problems China faces.

Andrew J. Nathan, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

A perfect short book by one of the great experts on China.

[A] terrific book...In one slim volume, Frank Ching has managed to capture all that is important about the human rights situation in China at this critical moment.

Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China

Frank Ching was educated at Columbia University in New York, then worked as a journalist for the New York Times before setting up the Wall Street Journal's first bureau in Beijing in 1979. Later, after nine years on the Far Eastern Economic Review he moved to the South China Morning Post as Senior Columnist. He also hosts a current affairs tv programme called 'Newsline' which airs weekly on the World channel of Asia Television. He lives in Hong Kong.

China is one of the great nations of the world. Containing roughly twenty per cent of the population of the globe, its economy is booming, and its role on the world's stage is increasingly influential. Yet this fascinating country is as complex as it is unusual: its inhabitants are denied some of their fundamental human rights. 
 
This powerfully written and incisive book throws light on China's record today. From the restrictions on speech and worship to the lack of freedoms under the law, the economy, health and the environment, it provides a well-informed look at what the inhabitants of this vast state may or may not do.

Frank Ching

A stunning accomplishment...Frank Ching brings to life the last nine centuries of Chinese history and culture as almost no other work in the English language has done

[An] extraordinary quest through 900 dramatic years of ancestral history

Not only a fascinating account of an extraordinary family...but provides a vivid picture of nearly a thousand years of history.

John Gittings, author of The Changing Face of China

Fascinating...The story of China's survival

Almost a millennium of Chinese history, reduced to a human scale

Delightful...a tour de force of the cyclical rise and fall of China

The story of China told through the lives of an extraordinary family

Frank Ching brings to life 900 years of Chinese history through his own fascinating family tree. Beginning with his search for the grave of his first recorded ancestor, the 11th century poet Qin Guan, and ending with a moving account of his relationship with his father, a victim of China's historic upheaval, Frank Ching introduces a colourful cast of characters. His unbroken family line includes - among many others - a lovelorn concubine, a traitor, a military hero, an imperial ghost-writer, a minister of punishments and a woman noted for her skills in both verse and martial arts. There is scarcely an aspect of Chinese life, from shamanism to violent rebellion, that Ching doesn't touch upon in this fascinating work. Through his vivid and personal portraits of his ancestors the history of China itself unfolds: from the days of the ancient empire to its radical transformation today.

Frank Ching

Praise for Ancestors

A stunning accomplishment...Frank Ching brings to life the last nine centuries of Chinese history and culture as almost no other work in the English language has done

[An] extraordinary quest through 900 dramatic years of ancestral history

Not only a fascinating account of an extraordinary family...but provides a vivid picture of nearly a thousand years of history.

A stunning accomplishment...Frank Ching brings to life the last nine centuries of Chinese history and culture as almost no other work in the English language has done

[An] extraordinary quest through 900 dramatic years of ancestral history

Not only a fascinating account of an extraordinary family...but provides a vivid picture of nearly a thousand years of history.

A stunning accomplishment...Frank Ching brings to life the last nine centuries of Chinese history and culture as almost no other work in the English language has done

[An] extraordinary quest through 900 dramatic years of ancestral history

Not only a fascinating account of an extraordinary family...but provides a vivid picture of nearly a thousand years of history.

Books by Frank Ching

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