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“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” I found myself returning again and again to that cold-hearted quotation, widely attributed toOh, Lai is not dead yet — indeed, he’s very much alive. But, at 77, he spends what could be the last days of his life on trial underdraconian national security law and kept in solitary confinement in a Hong Kong prison cell.
But, again, Lai is not dead yet. He’s very much alive and even, perhaps especially in his solitary confinement, very much a free man. There’s so much of Clifford’s book to like: the story of young Lai’s escape from communist China to Hong Kong; his search for his father who abandoned him but not before telling him, “You are going to do great things”; his rags-to-riches rise through the manufacturing, fashion, and media industries; and the ingenuity and intensity that led to his worldly success.
Natan Sharansky, the Russian dissident who knows something about totalitarian prison life, had three extended talks with Lai as he prepared for his arrest. In Sharansky’s beautiful foreword for, he writes that Lai “decided long ago that physical survival cannot be the ultimate struggle. Because if it is you don’t start such a struggle in the first place. How long you survive physically in prison doesn’t depend on you.
Jesus tells of the rich man who came to him and asked what he must do to inherit eternal life. Jesus told him to sell all he had, give the money to the poor, and then come follow him. “At this the man’s face fell, and he went away sad,” according to the book of Mark.
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