Background
She was born in Sichuan province, which she later left to attend Peking University, where she earned a master of science degree in biochemistry.
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Jennifer Zeng
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Education
Peking University.
Career
Later, when the government of the People"s Republic of China began to arrest people involved with the group, she was among them. She was in fact arrested four times, and sent to a labor camp, the Beijing Municipal Women"s Re-Education-Through-Labor Camp, for rehabilitation. Zeng relates that at the camp she was physically and mentally abused, subject to attempted brainwashing and even faced electroshock treatment.
She has also stated that while at the camp, on those days when there were visitors, she and the other detainees were forced to play cards or play basketball for the visitors to see.
In 2001, she fled to Australia, and now lives in Sydney as a refugee. Her daughter later followed her there for her own safety.
Since arriving in Australia, she has spoken out about the Australian government"s lack of protection of practitioners there, alleging that the government does not wish to insult or anger China. The official responded saying that he was a Chinese diplomat.
As such, no one particularly cared what he did, because Australia could not do much to him.
She published her book Witnessing History in 2005. The book has been described by a reviewer in the Midwest Book Review as "a necessarily harsh assault on a nation that does not respect human rights", and by June Sawyers in Booklist as "an often harrowing, powerful reminder of what can happen when government power runs unchecked".
