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Dear Mr. Rogge (A Play about the Olympics and the Power of Truth)

D.L. Kung

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Description:"Dear Mr. Rogge" is a three-act play, both funny and uplifting, about the Chinese writer in detention, He Depu. In 2008 the imprisoned He Depu fought off depression and illness to smuggle out a letter challenging International Olympics Committee President Jacques Rogge to walk from the Birds Nest Arena to Beijing Prison No. 2 to check the truth of his claim that the Olympics would be a catalyst for only good. The truth was that the Games caused these inmates only increased physical and mental torture. He Depu had survived beatings and deprivation. Dangerously, the very fact of being sponsored overseas by an NGO emboldened him; he now risked possibly lethal retaliation with his daring appeal. Chinese diplomats in Geneva warned his advocates that the prisoner would pay a price for continued resistance. In an eerie mirroring of events in China, his Swiss advocate at the Human Rights Council was pressured by her senior colleague to buckle under Chinese diplomatic threats and tailor her activism to a dysfunctional UN bureaucracy to avoid more suffering for the prisoner and his family. Might humanitarian persistence prove shortsighted, self-defeating or even selfish? The outcome of He's courage is both astonishing and inspiring, with a lesson for anyone being told by any institution to "play the game" in defiance of the truth. In August of 2009, "Dear Mr. Rogge" won a commendation in the BBC World Service/British Council International Playwriting Competition. It was presented by the Geneva English Drama Society on February 14, 2012. D. L. Kung is the author of six novels and a former journalist covering China for twenty years. Kung wrote for, among others, The Economist, The Washington Post, and Business Week and for coverage of Chinese prison labor, won the Overseas Press Club Award for Humanitarian Reporting in 1991.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dear Mr. Rogge (A Play about the Olympics and the Power of Truth). To get started finding Dear Mr. Rogge (A Play about the Olympics and the Power of Truth), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "Dear Mr. Rogge" is a three-act play, both funny and uplifting, about the Chinese writer in detention, He Depu. In 2008 the imprisoned He Depu fought off depression and illness to smuggle out a letter challenging International Olympics Committee President Jacques Rogge to walk from the Birds Nest Arena to Beijing Prison No. 2 to check the truth of his claim that the Olympics would be a catalyst for only good. The truth was that the Games caused these inmates only increased physical and mental torture. He Depu had survived beatings and deprivation. Dangerously, the very fact of being sponsored overseas by an NGO emboldened him; he now risked possibly lethal retaliation with his daring appeal. Chinese diplomats in Geneva warned his advocates that the prisoner would pay a price for continued resistance. In an eerie mirroring of events in China, his Swiss advocate at the Human Rights Council was pressured by her senior colleague to buckle under Chinese diplomatic threats and tailor her activism to a dysfunctional UN bureaucracy to avoid more suffering for the prisoner and his family. Might humanitarian persistence prove shortsighted, self-defeating or even selfish? The outcome of He's courage is both astonishing and inspiring, with a lesson for anyone being told by any institution to "play the game" in defiance of the truth. In August of 2009, "Dear Mr. Rogge" won a commendation in the BBC World Service/British Council International Playwriting Competition. It was presented by the Geneva English Drama Society on February 14, 2012. D. L. Kung is the author of six novels and a former journalist covering China for twenty years. Kung wrote for, among others, The Economist, The Washington Post, and Business Week and for coverage of Chinese prison labor, won the Overseas Press Club Award for Humanitarian Reporting in 1991.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dear Mr. Rogge (A Play about the Olympics and the Power of Truth). To get started finding Dear Mr. Rogge (A Play about the Olympics and the Power of Truth), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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