You cannot stop

Author: Tu Qiao
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: "A female reporter who ate a leopard's liver" cannot stop the tragedy. Tu Qiao, China's "Rejoice Women" and "Undercover Heroine" of 2003, presents a new work from New Era. After three years of undercover reporting, Tu Qiao never expected her life would be deeply entangled with her subject: a brutal murder case occurred right in her own home. The sudden tragedy nearly destroyed her entire life, which also led her to further reflect on her career as a journalist.
Recommendations from Experts: Undercover reporting abroad is an adventure. Journalists conceal their identities and delve into beggar communities, cult territories, drug trafficking groups, and gangster factions to get close, gather firsthand information, and produce highly detailed reports. The difference between such reports and those with open journalist identities lies in their revelation of "insider" information through abundant details, which are absolutely impossible to "create" through imagination. In Tu Qiao's undercover reports, some of her experiences were undoubtedly risky. Her book has breadth—the breadth of presenting the state of marginalized groups in contemporary Chinese society. It is sensitive and requires courage. You Cannot Stop continues Tu Qiao's consistent focus on women and marginalized groups, tracing the tragedy caused by an extramarital affair to document the struggle and downfall of women in such relationships amidst the entanglement of desire and materialism. The content of this book is entirely true, with only real names omitted.
Author Introduction: Starting as a journalist at 19, Tu Qiao has spent 16 years in the field. Since April 1998, she has embarked on a series of undercover reporting journeys. For each topic, she personally plays the role in the event to conduct interviews. To write about ten-yuan hotels, she lived in a dirty, chaotic ten-yuan room herself; to explore the survival state of bar girls, she worked as a beer girl in bars; to expose matchmaking scams, she participated in matchmaking herself. Survival Experiences: An Account of the Survival State of Marginalized Groups in Contemporary China is a crystallization of her personal experiences and undercover reporting. From May 2000, she followed and interviewed an AIDS patient for 180 days, authoring Pain of the Century: A Complete Record of AIDS Patients in China, whose humanistic care spirit has inspired many patients. She also became a journalist who truly records the survival state of AIDS patients. During her three-plus years of thrilling undercover reporting, Tu Qiao completed "investigative experiential reports" totaling over a million words, pioneering many "firsts" in the history of Chinese journalism. She was also called by the media as "a woman who does not yield to men" and an "excellent female journalist who ate a leopard's liver."
76719 Undercover reporting for three years, Xu Qian never expected her life would be deeply entangled with her subject: a brutally violent murder case occurred right in her own home. Xu Qian's entire life was nearly destroyed by this sudden tragedy, which also led her to further reflect on her career as a journalist. The novel You Cannot Stop continues the author's consistent focus on women and marginalized groups, depicting the struggle for gender power amidst the entanglement of desire and materialism, as well as the struggle and downfall of women in extramarital affairs.