New Book “Who Are China’s Walking Dead?” Reveals the Twisted World of CCP Officials

Who Are China’s Walking Dead? (Liberty Hill Press, 2020) features interviews with former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members and officials about the inner workings of the regime and the strange lives of its operatives. 

Two such operatives interviewed for the book are Guangsheng Han, and Fengjun Hao. These two former officials are of different ages, from different regions of China, worked in different departments, but they both left China and the CCP for the same reason: because of the CCP’s persecution of practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual movement. Another thing they have in common, is that neither of them practice Falun Gong.

In the book, Mr. Han, the former labor camp director, tells the story of how he unwillingly became an accomplice in the brutal torturing of a 15-year-old girl in one of his criminal institutions, how he had tried to change the system from within but failed, and ultimately left China to prevent himself from being an accomplice any longer.

Mr. Hao, a former national security agent and 6-10 Officer, tells the story of how he was arrested and imprisoned for a month and his bosses lied to his family (they told them he was on a business trip) because he refused to lie on camera for CCP media in relation to the persecution of Falun Gong. 

Emergence into a ‘Cruel and Dark’ World

When documentary filmmaker, Kay Rubacek of Swoop Films, began interviewing former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials for her award-winning movie, Finding Courage, she was shocked when they described themselves as the “Walking Dead.” As she found and interviewed more CCP officials—including a labor camp director, a propaganda official, a criminal court judge, an army colonel, a diplomat, a national security agent, and a CCP role-model student, among others—she found that their experiences lifted the veil on the opaque world of China’s officialdom.

“The world of CCP officialdom is very cruel and dark,” said the Labor Camp Director. “We had to know that propaganda and reality are disconnected,” said the Propaganda Official. “The law is only for people who are low-class—who don’t have any connections,” said the Chinese Diplomat. “You are forced to tell lies. It won’t work if you don’t tell lies. As a result, everyone becomes a liar,” said the High-Ranking Official.

Rubacek creates an engaging and eye-opening narrative by cleverly weaving together her interviews with the CCP officials and detailed research, including leaked CCP directives, documents. Each chapter reveals fresh insights into what drives the CCP regime today, how the CCPs operatives—CCP officials—rise and fall in rank, and how the CCP culture has shaped the lives of more than a billion people in the world’s most populous nation.

Who Are China’s Walking Dead? is available on Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.

For more information visit: www.ChinasWalkingDead.com. 

Please contact Timothy Gebhart (hello@swoopfilms.com or 503-855-8050) to know more about Who Are China’s Walking Dead? (Liberty Hill Press, 2020) or to schedule an interview with Kay Rubacek.

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