The Empire of Lies

by Sorman, Guy

• ISBN13: 9781594032165
• ISBN10: 1594032165
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-15
• Publisher: Encounter Books

Summary

Before the totalitarian reign of Mao Zedong and his immediate successors, never in human history had an entire nation been under such intense surveillance. The Chinese not only had to speak alike; they had to think alike. Traveling to China regularly since 1967, and spending all of 2005 and 2006 there, Guy Sorman saw it all, and in this jaw-dropping book, he documents the horrifying stories of China through the 21st century. He shows how the Party's primary concern is not improving the lives of the downtrodden; it seeks power more than it seeks social development. It expends extraordinary energy in suppressing Chinese freedoms-the media operate under suffocating censorship, and political opposition can result in expulsion or prison-even as it tries to seduce the West, which has conferred greater legitimacy on it than do the Chinese themselves.

Author Biography

Guy Sorman is a contributing editor of City Journal and writer for Le Figaro and the Wall Street Journal.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the American Edition	p. vii
Prologue: The Myth of China	p. xv
The Dissenters	p. 1
Wild Grass	p. 27
The Mystics	p. 49
The Dispossessed	p. 73
The Downtrodden	p. 99
Skewed Development	p. 117
Shadows of Democracy	p. 139
The Savage State	p. 159
The End of the Party	p. 183
The Republicans	p. 215
A Moral	p. 235
Acknowledgments	p. 243
Bibliography	p. 245
Map	p. 254
Index	p. 257
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