A Heart for Freedom (46 page)

1
Mara Hvistendahl, “The Great Forgetting: 20 Years After Tiananmen Square,”
Journal of Higher Education
, May 19, 2009, http://chronicle.com/article/The-Great-Forgetting-20-Ye/44267.

2
Zhang Liang, comp., Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link, eds.,
The Tiananmen Papers: The Chinese Leadership’s Decision to Use Force against Their Own People—in Their Own Words
, paperback edition (New York: PublicAffairs, 2002), 53–60.

3
Ibid., 73.

4
People’s Daily
editorial, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, April 25, 1989, 23–24.

5
Ren Wanding,
Selected Original Documents from China’s Democracy Movement, Big- and Small-Character Posters, Leaflets, Private Newsletters
, part II, 160–163.

6
Li Lu,
Moving the Mountain
(London: Macmillan, 1990), 193–195.

7
The English text of this letter can be read online at http://www.64memo.com/d/Default.aspx?tabid=97.

8
Hou Dejian, “Heirs of the Dragon.” Translation of Chinese text: http://www.onedayinmay.net/Other/Leehom/HeirsDragon.html.

9
Ibid.

10
Patrick E. Tyler, “Six Years After the Tiananmen Massacre, Survivors Clash Anew on Tactics,”
New York Times
, April 30, 1995, http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/30/world/6-years-after-the-tiananmen-massacre-survivors-clash-anew-on-tactics.html.

11
An Evaluation of 30 Years of the One-Child Policy in China
, hearing before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the United States House of Representatives, 111th Congress, first session, November 10, 2009, official transcript, 38.

12
For an excellent study of the effects of gendercide and gender imbalance, see Mara Hvistendahl,
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
(New York: PublicAffairs, 2011).

13
See Avraham Y. Ebenstein, “Estimating a Dynamic Model of Sex Selection in China,” Population Association of America, 2011; http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~ebenstein/Ebenstein_SexSelection_2011.pdf.

14
Information about
The Biology of Prenatal Development
can be found online at http://www.ehd.org/products_bpd_dvd.php. The “movie clip” I saw from the DVD can be viewed online at http://www.ehd.org/movies.php.

15
Alexa Olesen, “China’s Abortion Numbers Grow,”
Washington Times
, January 13, 2011; http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/13/chinas-abortion-numbers-grow.

16
These instructions were part of “Sacred Spaces,” a self-guided spiritual retreat at Grace Chapel, Lexington, Massachusetts, during Holy Week 2011. The pamphlet was written by Peter Dupre, Grace Chapel’s former pastor of worship and the arts.

17
Ephesians 1:4, emphasis added.

18
Ephesians 1:7-10, emphasis added.

19
Ephesians 2:8-10,
ESV
, emphasis added.

20
Thomas W. Strahan, JD, “Induced Abortion among Chinese Women: I. Sociological Aspects,”
Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social Change
, vol. 14, no. 1, July/August, 1999; http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/air/air_vol14no1_20001.html. Grace Ng, “13 Million Abortions a Year in China,”
Straits Times
, February 26, 2011; http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_639112.html.

21
The number 468 million is based on 36.3 percent of the 1.3 billion population of China living on less than two dollars per day, as reported in
Human Development Report 2009
, “Human and income poverty,” http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/indicators/103.html.

22
Zhang Liang, comp., Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link, eds.,
The Tiananmen Papers: The Chinese Leadership’s Decision to Use Force against Their Own People—in Their Own Words
, paperback edition (New York: PublicAffairs, 2002), 370. Ellipsis in original.