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Far Eastern The Red Book of Chinese Martyrs: Testimonies and Autobiographical Accounts. Edited by Gerolamo Fazzini. Translated by Michael Miller. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press. 2009. Pp. 374. $16.95 paperback. ISBN 978-1586-17244-2.)
This is a gripping book about the ordeals of Chinese Christians at the hands of their persecutors from the mid-1940s to the early 1980s, published earlier as ? libro rosso dei martiri cinesi (Milan, 2006). Gerolamo Fazzini- a professional journalist and the co-director of the monthly magazine Mondo e Missione, published by Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME)penned the general introduction as well as the introduction to each chapter. Cardinal Zen Ze-Kiun of Hong Kong wrote the preface.
The volume is composed of three autobiographical accounts and two testimonies. In chapter 1, Father Tan Tiande of the Canton diocese recalls his incarceration and his life in a laogai-aurefom through labor" camp- in northeast China between 195 1 and 1983. Ln chapter 2, Father Huang Yongmu of the Hong Kong diocese describes a very similar ordeal. Incarcerated in December 1955 and forced to endure several...