The values of freedom and democracy upon which America was founded are the same values that once inspired my father and are the ones to which he rema… - Ti-Anna Wang

"I was born in 1989, and my father, being a democracy activist, he was paying a lot of attention to what was going on in Tiananmen, in Beijing, at that time, so after the massacre, he named me Ti-Anna to commemorate the victims ... and also to celebrate the ideals of freedom and democracy. He really wanted to remember their courage.

The truth is, the lives of activists are much more complicated than what the novel presented. My father was not a regular man nor a regular father. He gave himself to his cause, and our relationship was forged by distance. There is no resentment. The world needs people like my father.

The conversations about human rights in China, they can be a little numbingly familiar after you talk about it.