About the Digital Collection
Eight hundred twenty-six episodes of Radio Free Asia’s program Journeys of the Soul 心灵之旅, 1998-2018. Episodes featured in-depth interviews with some of the most prominent Chinese diaspora writers, poets, scholars, public intellectuals, dissidents, and human rights activists in contemporary time. The program host is the award-winning journalist Zhang Min 张敏. The interviewees include leading exiled figures who had been at the center of political or diplomatic crises--including as the late Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波, astrophysicist Fang Lizhi 方励之, Tiananmen student leader Wan Dan 王丹, and the "blind lawyer" Chen Guangcheng 陈光诚. Those interviews with witnesses and participants cover many historical events in China from the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957, Mao's Great Famine (1959-61), the Cultural Revolution, to the June 4th Movement and the Weiquan movement (Civil rights movements).
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Source Collection
This digital collection comprises selected materials from the following archival collection at David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library:
Journeys of the Soul (心灵之旅) recordings 1998-2018
Collection #RL.11948 | 12 Linear Feet; 936 items (414 audiocassettes, 522 minidiscs)
ABSTRACT
Eight hundred twenty-six episodes of Radio Free Asia's program Journeys of the Soul (心灵之旅), 1998 to 2018. Episodes are approximately 30 minutes, with interviews covering topics including the Great Leap Forward, The Great Famine, Korean War, the Cultural Revolution, the June 4th Movement, the Anti-Rightest Campaign, and the Weiquan movements (civil rights movements) in China. Also includes unedited audio.
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