Hua Ze, a filmmaker and signatory of Charter 08, is known for her work in exposing human rights abuses in China. She co-edited In the Shadow of the Rising Dragon, has faced detention by authorities, and is currently serving as a visiting scholar at Columbia University.
In the Shadow of the Rising Dragon | Stories of Repression in the New China, edited by Xu Youyu and Hua Ze is a collection of personal accounts of Chinese citizens and the inhumanity they regularly face. Edited by two Chinese scholars, both of whom have experienced surveillance, control, abduction, and detention, this is a probing and revealing look at life under the police state of the world’s most populous country.
Peter and Amy Bernstein founded Bernstein Literary Agency in 2009. For over two decades, we have worked with over 100 brilliant authors around the globe and across a gamut of subjects to get their books published, and their stories told. We typically work on non-fiction projects, but we have helped bring many fiction books, children’s books, and the occasional cookbook to market. We work with authors in all stages of their careers, from experienced, award-winning, and bestselling ones to debut writers ready to take on the world.
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