Chan Kin Man's Tribute to Enlighteners (16 books)

In his last public lecture before retirement at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chan shared with the audience and students books that have inspired his life onto the path of advocating democracy for China and Hong Kong.

The lecture is available here with Chinese Subtitles: https://youtu.be/gUFlkZPcNg4
Subtitles in English and other languages will be available soon.
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Prof. Chan Kin Man is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He graduated from CUHK with Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology and received his Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University. As a former director of the Universities Service Centre for China Studies and founder of the Centre for Civil Society Studies of CUHK, Prof. Chan has been actively promoting civil society development in China. He has devoted himself to the Hong Kong democracy movement and was one of the major initiators of the “Occupy Central with Love and Peace” campaign. Prof. Chan’s publications include, inter alia, 《走向公民社會》 and《艱難的轉型：現代化與中國社會》 (Co-edited with Zhong Hua).

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1	Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel de Unamuno 4.02 avg rating — 2,311 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer 4.30 avg rating — 3,868 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas (Goodreads Author) 4.22 avg rating — 81,800 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi 4.10 avg rating — 74,499 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	My Life and Thought: An Autobiography by Albert Schweitzer 3.97 avg rating — 480 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	A Theory of Justice by John Rawls 3.96 avg rating — 13,505 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Rethinking Military Politics by Alfred Stepan 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Crisis, Breakdown and Reequilibration. An Introduction by Juan Linz (Editor) 4.02 avg rating — 55 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville 4.05 avg rating — 26,860 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society by Jürgen Habermas 3.87 avg rating — 2,179 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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15	Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm 4.27 avg rating — 15,857 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Lust for Life by Irving Stone 4.28 avg rating — 31,397 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars