China: The Truth About Its Human Rights Record

China is one of the great nations of the world, containing roughly twenty per-cent of the population of the globe. Its economy is booming, and its role on the world’s stage is increasingly influential. Yet this fascinating country is as complex as it is unusual, and a nation in which the population is denied many fundamental human rights.

This powerfully written and incisive book throws light on China’s record today. From restrictions on free speech and worship to the lack of freedoms under the law, in the economy, in health matters and the environment, former Wall Street Journal Beijing bureau chief, Frank Ching, offers a well-informed perspective on what the inhabitants of this vast state might or might not do in the future.

At a time when the world’s attention is focused on China, Asia-based journalist, Frank Ching, presents an intelligent and informed perspective on that country’s human rights situation.

China is one of the great nations of the world, containing roughly twenty per-cent of the population of the globe. Its economy is booming, and its role on the world’s stage is increasingly influential. Yet this fascinating country is as complex as it is unusual, and a nation in which the population is denied many fundamental human rights.

This powerfully written and incisive book throws light on China’s record today. From restrictions on free speech and worship to the lack of freedoms under the law, in the economy, in health matters and the environment, former Wall Street Journal Beijing bureau chief, Frank Ching, offers a well-informed perspective on what the inhabitants of this vast state might or might not do in the future.

Frank Ching was educated at Columbia University in New York and then worked as a journalist for the New York Times before setting up the Wall Street Journal’s first bureau in Beijing in 1979. Later, after nine years on the Far East Economic Review, he moved to the South China Morning Post as Senior Columnist. He also hosts a current affairs TV programme, Newsline airing weekly on the World channel of Asia television. He lives in Hong Kong.