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Boffins Books is delighted to be joining Women in Media WA and the City of Perth Library in hosting Cheng Lei as she discusses her debut book, A Memoir of Freedom.
About the Book
Journalist Cheng Lei's memoir is a powerful and harrowing account of her three-year ordeal in China that began with her arrest in August 2020. Her vivid writing offers a rare glimpse into China's ultra-secret state security prisons and what it takes to survive such incarceration with your humanity intact.
About the Author
Cheng Lei is an Australian-Chinese journalist who has worked for both Western and Chinese media. She was born in China but grew up in Australia from the age of ten. At the tensest point in Australia-China relations, she was detained for supplying 'state secrets to overseas organisations' and was incarcerated in Beijing by China's Ministry of State Security for three years and two months. Australian diplomatic efforts secured her release, and she was reunited with her family in October 2023. Lei currently works as a presenter for Sky News. She received the Press Freedom Award from the Australian Press Council in 2024 and was the Australian newspaper's Australian of the Year in 2023.
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