chinese communist party, falun gong, little pink, persecution, police brutality, shanghai, shanghai public security bureau, shattered chinese dream, survivor, zhang yuxuan

Experiences in Shanghai Shatter Zhang Yuxuan’s ‘Chinese Dream’ (Part 2)

One fateful day in 2022, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) public security officers came pounding on Zhang Yuxuan’s door and shouted: “You know what you have done.” Then, they took him to the Public Security Bureau, asked him to sign a confession, and left him there for four or five hours before releasing him. The ‘red ...

September 3, 2023

Michael Segarty

Zhang Yuxuan, a young Taiwanese man, sitting on a bench telling how he was persecuted and tortured while in China.

Experiences in Shanghai Shatter Zhang Yuxuan’s Chinese Dream (Part 1)

One evening, around 9 o’clock, a young Taiwanese man named Zhang Yuxuan was scrolling through his mobile phone in his rented apartment in Shanghai when suddenly, he heard a crashing bang, and the front door was smashed open. Several public security officers of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) barged in, grabbed a hold of him, ...

September 2, 2023

Michael Segarty

Zhang Yuxuan, a young Taiwanese man who was persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party.

A Shattered Chinese Dream

Mr. Wu Ningkun, an acclaimed Chinese translator and an Anglo-American literary research expert, passed away at the age of 99 on August 10, 2019, in the United States. He is best known for his Chinese translation of The Great Gatsby, a 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his memoir about a shattered Chinese dream ...

September 6, 2019

Max Lu