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Dragon fighter : one woman's epic struggle for peace with China / Rebiya Kadeer with Alexandra Cavelius ; introduction by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Van Pelt Library DS793.E2 K2413 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kadeer, Rebiya, 1946-
- Standardized Title:
- Himmelsstürmerin. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kadeer, Rebiya, 1946-.
- Kadeer, Rebiya.
- Uighur (Turkic people)--History.
- Uighur (Turkic people).
- History.
- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--History.
- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China).
- Physical Description:
- xix, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Carlsbad, CA] : Kales Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Rebiya Kadeer is a champion of human rights for the Uyghur people and had to endure five years of notoriously harsh prison conditions for her activism. Thank you for your tireless efforts and tin quantifiable sacrifices for the cause of freedom and human rights in China," Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Like Rain that Falls From the Sky i
- Leaving, Grieving, Believing 37
- Hunger of the Soul 51
- Red Revolution, Blue Dissolution 79
- Everything Besides Death is a Pleasure 107
- A Feather Fell Down From One Angel 127
- Further Into the Yellow Desert 145
- Because You Are a Woman 169
- Do You Hear the Rooster Crowing 197
- The Wealthiest Woman in China 237
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Us 267
- It Was a Time When Those in Power Dropped Their Masks 291
- In Hell One Day the Fire Will Go Out Part One 309
- In Hell One Day the Fire Will Go Out Part Two 349
- A Fable About a Little Ant 377.
- ISBN:
- 0979845653
- 9780979845659
- OCLC:
- 751731881
- Publisher Number:
- 99950164568
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