Kafka in China Part Two: An American Near Death in the People's Republic of Black Jails - Couverture souple

Rothman, Warren Henry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0692064702 ISBN 13 : 9780692064702

Editeur : Warren H. Rothman, 2018

Synopsis

Kafka in China is a geopolitical thriller, a true story that took place in Shanghai in October 2008, in the midst of the most terrifying financial crisis since the Great Depression and the unleashing of corruption in China that reached unheard of levels. A blurt-out to the author about a $3 million bribe by an American company launches a series of horrific, convoluted events, a forced journey of escalating terror through Chinese black jails and into a Shanghai mental hospital where he is tortured and drugged.Kafka in China, Part One, The People’s Republic of Corruption, sets the scene and describes the onset of trouble. Kafka in China, Part Two, An American Near Death in the People’s Republic of Black Jails, takes the story into its ever more hellish circumstances as the author is kidnapped from his apartment and hunted all over Shanghai. There is also an American side to this story in the form of two unexplained letters on the letterhead of the US Consulate General/Shanghai (included in the book) that may have enabled and authorized the worst abuses suffered by the author. Strenuous efforts to find out, from the State Department and through certain members of Congress, whether these letters are genuine or forgeries have been met with a stone wall.Kafka in China, Part Two contains a Prologue concerning the uncanny applicability of Franz Kafka’s short story,The Great Wall of China, to the People’s Republic of China, and a 30-page Epilogue concerning the implications of this case as to the PRC’s domestic situation and its relations with the West.A true story of an innocent American caught in the grip of the totalitarian police state that is Communist China, Kafka in China describes the real and actual menace to any foreigner who may be located there or within the reach of that regime.“Warren Rothman is a lawyer and a singer. As a lawyer, he is quite a rational man, as a singer, a deeply sensitive one. Both tempers combine for the best in this book whose contrapuntal writing articulates the narrative of the plight he came through and his memories of the China he used to love. Shades of Proust and Orwell along with Kafka.” —Béatrice Desgranges, (prof de philo, retraité), Author, specialist on Émile Zola and Mo Yan, translator of poems of Liu Xia “Gripping account of an American expat in China, hunted for an offense whose nature is never explained to him...confined to a mental facility...drugged and tortured...I just finished the second installment of this wonderful book—even knowing the author going to survive, the reader is kept in suspense. Not many people have such a gift for making readers feel that they are there. Can’t wait for part three!” —June Teufel Dreyer, Professor of Political Science, University of Miami “Kafka in China ...horrifying...full of essential information about the PRC that one can scarcely find anywhere else. Judging from what is presented in Kafka in China, I’m sure that many readers are eagerly awaiting its sequel(s), so I think Mr. Rothman should publish the remainder as soon as possible.” —Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania“...innocent American who gets caught up in the extremes of the regime’s brutality. Through his gaze..the Party’s lies, slander, and propaganda...The American people, our leaders...should read this book. The Epilogue is comprehensive, well researched, clear and informative.” —Dr. Terri Marsh, Ph. D., J.D., Executive Director, Human Rights Law Foundation “Warren Rothman’s personal account...a suspenseful ‘page turner’... offers valuable insights into a complex, traumatized, and ultimately lawless society, a CCP-created hellhole, a nightmare that even Orwell could barely have imagined. Warren’s experiences...are a timely and unsettling warning as to the PRC and Chinese Communist Party’s true nature as it pushes for global domination...” —Grant Newsham, Colonel, USMC (Ret.), Former Exec. Director Morgan Stanley Japan

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Warren H. Rothman
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0692064702
• ISBN 13: 9780692064702
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 284
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