This autobiographical work was written in 1980 by a leading Chinese dissident, who was released from jail in October 1990 after being imprisoned as a pro-democracy activist in the wake of the Tiananmen incident in 1989. The central theme of the three stories is extreme deprivation and "Hunger".
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..