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Verso editors read from The Verso Book of Dissent, in English and Chinese
Verso editors Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim recently gave readings during the event “Into East River(s): Chinese / American Artists and Asian American Poets” at City University of New York. Both read from The Verso Book of Dissent.
Because The Verso Book of Dissent features writings and speeches from around the globe spanning centuries, some appearing in English for the first time, it wasn’t difficult for Hsiao and Lim to find choice selections to read for the event.
Hsiao went back to 1887 to channel “one of the greatest of great New York smart-asses,” Wong Chin Foo, affirming Wong’s designation by recounting the time Wong challenged anti-Chinese populist and Tea Party forebear Denis Kearney to a duel to the death, with chopsticks. Hsiao read from “Why Am I A Heathen,” Wong’s response to Christian attacks against Chinese immigrants:
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The Verso Book of Dissent
A sparkling anthology of revolt and resistance to orthodoxy and repression.
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What's missing from The Verso Book of Dissent?
Verso’s cutting room floor is cluttered—with statements from strong movements that lacked eloquent leaders, and revolutionaries whose later abuses of power cast a shadow back across their earlier years. To ensure that the Book of Dissent spanned the ages and reached around the world, we limited it to one extract from each writer, leading to many agonizing choices. But there are undoubtedly mistakes, gaps and missed opportunities—please help us to plug these holes in time for the next edition!