Former head of Human Rights Watch Ken Roth interviews journalist Emily Feng on identification and human rights in Xi´s China.
Emily Feng is an award-winning Chinese language American journalist who spent a decade reporting from China and Taiwan. In 2022, Feng was barred from returning to the Chinese language mainland and labelled a “race traitor” for her journalism.
Her latest guide, Let Solely Crimson Flowers Bloom: Identification and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China, tells the human tales of resistance and insurrection in opposition to the Chinese language state’s imaginative and prescient of a unified nationwide identification.
On this episode, Ken Roth and Emily Feng study Xi Jinping’s previous, exploring what distinguishes his model of authoritarianism and the way this impacts human rights each inside China and globally.
