Challenging China : struggle and hope in an era of change / edited by Sharon Hom and Stacy Mosher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Mineshaft : warnings from China's most vulnerable -- Rule by terror / Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao -- A tale of two crises : SARS vs. AIDS / Hu Jia -- Media control in China / He Qinglian -- An inside view / Zhang Youjie -- A migrant family's accounts / Yang Yinbo -- Mineshaft, our black home / Qiu Yueshou -- Pt. 2. The age of mammoths : systemic political problems -- China's robber barons / Liu Xiaobo -- Draining the pond to catch the fish / He Qinglian -- Broken flowers / Zeng Renquan -- "Resurrection" exposes confession under torture / Leng Wanbao -- Rotten rope / Yan Li -- Pt. 3. The power of a red rose : protesters -- June 4th and human rights in China / Wang Juntao -- The rise of civil society in China / Liu Xiaobo -- A Tiananmen mother vows to fight on / Yang Hongfeng -- The view beneath the bridge / Yi Ban -- The end of the rope / Zhang Lin -- The power of a red rose (a poetic oration) / Huang Xiang -- Pt. 4. White nights : personal reflections -- Death-row study session / Zeng Linlin -- The past is not another country (an interview with Wang Youquin) / China Rights Forum -- A migration of souls / Ren Bumei -- Address unknown / Gao Ertai -- Someone outside the door / Wang Yu -- Pt. 5. The shepherd's song : voices of the spirit -- A mother's story / Jin Yanming -- The Falun Gong phenomenon / Hu Ping -- Cultural Christians and contemporary Christianity in China / Ka Lun Leung -- Art from the latrines of the great northern wilderness / Wang Ai -- An open letter to my police readers / Yu Jie.

"Challenging China brings together the voices of Chinese reporters, intellectuals, activists, and poets; their moving personal stories, memoirs, analyses, and reportage open a window into the struggle of people in China to speak out, to witness, to demand an accounting from those in power, and to look deeply and honestly at their country's problems."--BOOK JACKET.