{"product_id":"those-who-should-be-seized-should-be-seized-isbn-9781685891794","title":"Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized","description":"\u003cb\u003eA shocking, on-the-ground investigation of the Chinese government’s brutal oppression of its Muslim citizens — the Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and others — from Xinjiang to the streets of New York  and Washington, DC . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning journalist John Beck recounts China's persecution of the predominantly Muslim minorities in Xinjiang and its relentless pursuit of the few who escaped beyond its borders. Through intertwined literary narratives combined with snippets of original source material, including official directives and speeches, he pieces together the individual stories of what consecutive American administrations have described as genocide. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe narrative moves from China to Kazakhstan, Turkey and the US, incorporating the tensions, discrimination, and occasional violence that characterised life in Xinjiang for decades. But when Xi Jinping is appointed President in 2013, the creeping  repression quickly escalates into a crackdown of unprecedented scope and  severity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeck follows 4 characters: a Kazakh writer and an Uyghur nurse who survived re-education camps before ultimately escaping abroad, a human rights advocate involved in securing their release, and an inadvertent exile spied on by Chinese authorities as his family back home was used as leverage against him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough their stories, the book explores identity, dehumanization, and censorship, the force of literature in dark times, and an all-pervasive apparatus of repression able to exist within miles of the White House.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Beck lived in Istanbul for a number of years, where he was in close contact with the city's Uyghur diaspora and wrote on the crackdown and related issues for publications including \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic.\u003c\/i\u003e Some of that work forms the basis of this book along with further reporting from Almaty, Kazakhstan, Virginia, and New York.\"Beck creates a vivid panorama of chilling brutality mixed with Kafkaesque absurdism. . . . It’s a searing indictment of repression in Xinjiang.\" \u003cb\u003e-- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Illustrates the brutality of China’s repression through the experiences of four individuals ... Beck’s book reads at times like a tale of suspense as he recounts poignant stories of suffering, resilience and survival. He has added to the body of literature documenting the effects of Mr. Xi’s dystopian vision and its consequences, not only for the Muslims of Xinjiang but also for the rest of the world.\" \u003cb\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"John Beck’s \u003ci\u003eThose Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized\u003c\/i\u003e is not merely a book. It is a reckoning... The book gives voice to those who refused to remain silent... Their courage in speaking out, despite the regime’s relentless efforts to silence them, is humbling.\" \u003cb\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A painful, necessary book.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003e Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A tender, compassionate examination of how ordinary lives in Xinjiang are torn apart by the Chinese government’s ruthlessly efficient campaign to destroy the way of life of the region’s Uyghur and Kazakh people. Fast-paced and engaging.\" \u003cb\u003e– Yaroslav Trofimov, chief foreign-affairs correspondent of \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eThose Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized\u003c\/i\u003e, John Beck offers a powerful and heart-wrenching exploration of the hardships, brutalities, and injustices the Uyghur community has endured – and a crucial investigation into its resilience in the face of it all.” \u003cb\u003e– Patrick Strickland, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou Can Kill Each Other After I Leave\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“A devastatingly powerful account of China’s brutal high-tech campaign to enchain its ethnic minorities in the name of ‘stability maintenance.’ Beck is not just a first-rate investigative journalist but a fine writer, one whose spare prose and gentle cadence haunts even as it informs. An exceptional work.” \u003cb\u003e– Scott Anderson, author of \u003ci\u003eLawrence in Arabia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Beck\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning journalist focused on conflict and human rights issues, whose writing has appeared in\u003ci\u003e GQ, Harper's, Wired, Businessweek, National Geographic, The Atlantic,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times Magazine.\u003c\/i\u003e He won the 2017 Kurt Schork Memorial Award as well as the 2019 Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism fellowship, and has been shortlisted for the Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents, Amnesty International Media Awards, among others. Based in New York, he is a Pulitzer Centre for Crisis Reporting grantee.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304387104997,"sku":"NP9781685891794","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781685891794.jpg?v=1767742552","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/those-who-should-be-seized-should-be-seized-isbn-9781685891794","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}