Getting Used to Dying Author:Hsien-Liang Chang The author uses his life in China and a trip to various parts of the United States as backdrops for a depiction of his emotional life. Being condemned as a political prisoner, even being taken to his execution, has no meaning for him, he says, since his "death"--the loss of his beliefs, his hopes, his work as a writer, and especially h... more »is ability to love--has already occurred.« less