{"id":651,"date":"2011-06-24T09:13:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T13:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=651"},"modified":"2016-09-08T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:46:29","slug":"bitter-winds-harry-wu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2011\/06\/24\/bitter-winds-harry-wu\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitter Winds. Harry Wu."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bitter Winds : A Memoir of My Years in China\u2019s Gulag<\/p><\/div>\n

Harry Wu<\/em><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Bitter Winds : A Memoir of My Years in China\u2019s Gulag<\/em>. \u00a0Harry Wu.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bitter Winds, Indeed…. <\/strong>April 20, 2000<\/p>\n

Returning in 1994 from China as a Fulbright Scholar, I could not shake China off. It has become part of my consciousness forever. After writing an essay on classical and modern Chinese literature, with Confucius, Tu Fu, Lu Xun, Lu Wenfu, and other classical and modern writers fresh in my mind, I reread the writings of Fang Lizhi and continued to struggle to understand my experience in China. Appalled by the injustices of a political system that could imprison and destroy so many members of its own culture, from all walks of life, I then read in November of 1994 Harry Wu\u2019s\u00a0Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China\u2019s Gulag<\/em>…..<\/p>\n

Now available in<\/p>\n

The Myth of the Enlightenment: Essays<\/em>
\nForthcoming, September, 2014.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.earthrisepress.net\/myth_of_the_enlightenment.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n

My epic poem, The\u00a0<\/em>\"pp_150\"<\/a>Parliament of Poets<\/em>, is partly\u00a0set in China, at Dunhuang, in the Mogao Caves, Chang-an, at the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and on Taishan. Many Chinese poets\u00a0and sages are characters, on Earth and on the Moon\u2026 including Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Li Po, Sun Wukong, and others.
\nRead a free chapter online\u00a0at\u00a0Amazon USA. Also available on Amazon China.
\nhttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Parliament-Poets-Epic-Poem\/dp\/098267788X\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Far from China needing business now, and human rights later, China needs, as all countries need, human rights and democracy first and foremost and forever. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[357,361,363,351,354,349,358,359,360,362],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","tag-bitter-winds","tag-chinas-gulag","tag-communist-party","tag-democracy","tag-falun-gong","tag-fang-lizhi","tag-harry-wu","tag-memoir","tag-my-years","tag-slave-labor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}