Tag: tiananmen
member name: Deb S.
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July 22, 2009 07:17 AM EDT --
Award winning novel Rabbit in the Moon was reviewed yesterday by National Public Radio. Hear the review here: http://wgcu.org/programs/floridabookpage/
Great book for book clubs. Check . . .
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June 04, 2008 08:23 AM EDT --
On the eve of the 19 th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre (June 4,1989) the United States urged China to give a full account of what really happened at Tiananmen Square that day and to release prisoners . . .
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February 02, 2009 11:38 AM EST --
As China faces its own domestic financial crisis, the leadership has received increasing criticism from within the country, most notably the December 10, 2008 Charter ’08, a petition originally . . .
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March 27, 2009 08:12 PM EDT --
We just returned home after a seven hour drive from Tallahassee. Wednesday night’s Florida Heritage awards ceremony, which included the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal winners, was quite special. . . .
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August 04, 2008 11:36 AM EDT --
Following the tragedy of Tiananmen Square in1989, the Chinese Party decided that the way to remain in power would be to ease up on economic freedom as a tradeoff for political freedom. After DengXiaping . . .
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January 19, 2009 01:49 PM EST --
On December 10, 2008, more than 2000 Chinese citizens released a signed petition they called Charter 08 to mark the 60 th anniversary of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The name, . . .
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March 02, 2009 08:36 AM EST --
According to a BBC article, a group of mothers whose children were killed in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 are now urging the Chinese government to end the taboo against acknowledging the . . .
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March 06, 2009 10:51 AM EST --
The short-lived student democracy movement of 1989 had one prominent supporter among the Communist Party leaders: Zhao Ziyang. Fearing a loss of power as the protests grew and ordinary citizens joined . . .
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June 30, 2008 09:46 PM EDT --
By popular request, we are adding a pronunciation guide for those who have said that would will help them pronounce some of the difficult Chinese names in our novel, Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah . . .
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July 28, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
This week our novel, Rabbit in the Moon is featured on AuthorBuzz: http://www.authorbuzz.com/dearreader/index.shtml . Five people will receive free autographed books, so take a look and e-mail us if . . .
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October 03, 2008 11:16 AM EDT --
Rabbit in the Moon has been submitted for one of the National Best Books 2008 Awards sponsored by USA Book News in the Fiction & Literature: Thriller/Adventure category! Keep your fingers . . .
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February 27, 2009 08:20 PM EST --
Exciting news: our latest novel, Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah & Joel Shlian has won the the Gold Medal in the Genre Fiction category for the Florida Book Awards.
The Florida . . .
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March 11, 2009 09:37 AM EDT --
Yesterday (March 10, 2009) was the 50 th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising against Beijing rule that sent the Dalai Lama, age 73, into exile. 2009 is a year of several politically . . .
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March 21, 2009 12:23 PM EDT --
According to a report from Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch, a human rights group out of Beijing, China has arrested Zhang Shijun, a former soldier who recently posted a letter on the Internet . . .
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June 04, 2009 09:45 AM EDT --
Today marks twenty years since Deng Xiaoping ordered the People’s Liberation Army to shoot down hundreds if not thousands of peaceful protestors in Tiananmen Square. In the past two decades . . .
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July 02, 2008 10:31 PM EDT --
Here is a link for reading group guide for the new international thriller, Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah and Joel Shlian
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_R/rabbit_in_the_moon1.asp
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August 18, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
The following excerpt from Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah and Joel Shlian, describes a tai-chi lesson between the two main characters:Lili and Chi-Wen
For a long time they sat, not talking, . . .
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May 30, 2009 11:45 AM EDT --
Rabbit in the Moon won ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Silver Medal for Mystery ! According to founder and publisher, Victoria Sutherland, winners were selected by dozens of librarians . . .
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August 08, 2008 08:14 PM EDT --
In the 1980’s mainland China had been open to American tourists for a very short time so my husband and I had an opportunity to explore a country relatively untouched by Western popular culture – relatively . . .
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May 15, 2009 12:43 PM EDT --
The backdrop of our novel, Rabbit in the Moon , is the seven weeks in 1989 between the April rise of the student Democracy movement and its fall with the Tiananmen massacre on June 4. During . . .
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