This book exposed the reader to just that perspective from no less famous writers and activists than Wei Jingsheng, Yan Jiaqi, Shen Tong, Wang Rouwang, and others. Though theirs is the view of a small minority of Chinese, history may still record the publication of these essays as a milestone in the history of this issue.
Tibet Through Dissident Chinese Eyes: Essays on Self-determination ,James D. Seymour (Author), Cao Changching (Contributor), Routledge, Paperback, 1998, 162 Pages, 39.95
James D. SEYMOUR, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute,Columbia University, New York.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, CUHK.
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University Services Centre for China Studies, CUHK.
James D. Seymour�s field is Chinese politics, and his particular interests are human rights, ethnic minorities, labor issues, the environment. He is the primary author of New Ghosts, Old Ghosts: Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China (1998). Before coming to Columbia he taught at New York University, where he served as chairman of the Politics Department in Washington Square College.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Dr. Seymour worked on behalf of political prisoners held under Taiwan �s martial law. On two occasions he was sent to the island by Amnesty International to appeal to the government to commute these prisoners� sentences. He was invited to appear at hearings held by the relevant committees of the U.S. Congress, where he testified about political repression in Taiwan. He has also investigated and published articles about North Korean refugees in China. He is treasurer and a director of The Hongkong-based labor rights organization China Labour Bulletin.
