{"product_id":"9786267835241","title":"Only the safflower blooms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmily Feng, International Human Rights Press Awards Winner,\u003cbr\u003eA Work of Life Questioning \"What is China, What is Chinese?\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the autumn of 2019, inside a detention room at Beijing Capital International Airport, a Chinese-American journalist awaited an unknown interrogation. Accused of being a \"banana person with yellow skin and white bones,\" she was asked to \"tell a good Chinese story\" during a three-hour interrogation and search of her electronic devices. This experience served as a starting point, igniting her profound inquiry into how China defines and controls identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnder Xi Jinping's rule, China has embarked on a decade-long massive national rejuvenation project. Guided by the principle of national unity, people are only considered \"upright Chinese\" if they conform to identity frameworks such as being \"Han Chinese, speaking Mandarin, heterosexual, and loyal to the Party.\" Behind this high-pressure rule, however, lies the fear of political disintegration by the rulers, who attempt to assimilate 1.3 billion citizens, allowing only \"red flowers\" loyal to the Party's will to blossom to maintain national stability. Any diversity that does not meet expectations will be suppressed and silenced.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author of this book, Emily Feng, leads readers through the mist of political slogans to witness the life stories of 20 resisters who protect the color of their souls. From human rights lawyers and \"little pinks\" who once fought for the nation, to writers who kept COVID-19 lockdown diaries, to Hong Kong booksellers, the \"chained woman of Xuzhou's eight children,\" and exiled Uyghur fathers. These individuals voice their grievances on the margins of the system; some choose to stay, some are forced into diaspora, and others struggle painfully between silence and self-preservation. Despite the heavy price, they still try to retain the right to speak and their sense of self-identity in the cracks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a splendid investigative work with a chorus of voices. Every character penned by Emily Feng is like a unique flower struggling to grow on parched land. Although the state only wants red flowers to bloom, they prove indelible diversity with their lives, defiantly conveying the voice of freedom to the authoritarian regime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e◆ After the 709 crackdown, how did Chinese human rights activists break through the legal winter?\u003cbr\u003e◆ How does the CCP use \"cracking down on gangs and evil\" to use law as a tool to control economic and political dissent?\u003cbr\u003e◆ Under China's internet censorship mechanism, how has the \"lying flat\" culture become a silent protest?\u003cbr\u003e◆ How do minority groups such as Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Mongolians protect their language and culture under high-pressure rule?\u003cbr\u003e◆ From birth control to human trafficking, how do Chinese women break through generational gender inequality?\u003cbr\u003e◆ After the anti-extradition bill protests, the unfulfilled path of diasporic Hong Kongers seeking political asylum and democratic resistance abroad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eEmily Feng\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eEmily Feng is a Washington D.C. Correspondent for NPR and a former Beijing Correspondent for the Financial Times. In 2019, she joined NPR, based in Beijing and Taipei, covering a wide range of issues including the semiconductor industry, China's surveillance of Uyghurs, and China's COVID-19 pandemic. Emily Feng has received multiple international journalism awards, including the Shorenstein Journalism Award for her reporting in the Asia Pacific region in 2022, and the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize in 2023 for her reporting on the experiences of Uyghur families in China. Additionally, she has won the Human Rights Press Awards twice and has been recognized by the Overseas Press Club (2025), Boston University’s Xiao-Li Xiong Asian Affairs Reporting Award (2024), the National Headliner Awards, and the Gracie Awards. In 2025, Feng will relocate to NPR's Washington D.C. bureau to cover foreign policy and U.S.-China relations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"小冊選書 Little Book Project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62813179543882,"sku":null,"price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/2839\/0833\/files\/flower.webp?v=1785157709","url":"https:\/\/www.littlebookproject.com\/en\/products\/9786267835241","provider":"小冊選書 Little Book Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}