Heart for Freedom
The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, Her Daring Escape, and Her Quest to Free China's Daught

I abandoned this at the halfway point, it was just too slow. The events that the book claims to be about had only just begun by the time I stopped reading. A lot of authors make this mistake--writing in great detail about their early life, families and childhood when it doesn't have much if anything......more

The first 4/5 of the book was great, but the last 1/5 clearly jumped the shark. I have no problem with Chai talking about specific spinoffs of her conversion to Christianity, since that's part of her biography. I'm not so OK with her equating forced abortions for sex in China with all abortions, for......more

Incredible and timely read. Powerful memoir by a survivor of Chinese communism and inspiring woman who led democracy protests in 1989. Harrowing yet heart-warming. We need these dissident stories more now than ever. Highly recommended reading.......more

Great book. Compelling firsthand account of the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, and the Democracy Movement. From a Christian perspective I also really enjoyed the autobiographical nature of the book and the way it delved into the Chai Ling's testimony. That said, from an editorial perspectiv......more

I did like the first 2/3 of this book: 1.First person perspective of the leadership of the 1989 Tiananman Square student protest which resulted in a massacre by the Chinese gov't. Chai Ling was pretty much the leader. 2.Admission of her four abortions under China's one-child and no-child-for-unmarried......more