Swimming to freedom : my escape from China and the Cultural Revolution : an untold story /
Wong, Kent (Anesthesiologist),
Swimming to freedom : my escape from China and the Cultural Revolution : an untold story / Kent Wong. - 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Prologue : "it's your time to fly away" -- Hong Kong is not china, and we are Chinese -- Chasing sparrows -- Hunger -- Red versus black -- The big link-up -- "No noble men" -- Rooftop underground -- The calm before the storm -- A call from heaven -- The endless sea -- Life and death in heaven's hands -- Life is a stream of water -- "Hey, Hong Kong! I'm back!" -- Epilogue : so much has changed, yet much remains the same.
A Chinese expatriate tells his story of escaping the hardship and repression of Mao's Cultural Revolution by joining the dissident underground, swimming miles across open water to Hong Kong, and eventually moving to the United States as a refugee.
9781419751509 1419751506
Wong, Kent--Childhood and youth.
Children--China--Biography.
Refugees--China--Biography.
Refugees--China--Hong Kong--Biography.
Refugees--United States--Biography.
Chinese Americans--Biography.
China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.
Swimming to freedom : my escape from China and the Cultural Revolution : an untold story / Kent Wong. - 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Prologue : "it's your time to fly away" -- Hong Kong is not china, and we are Chinese -- Chasing sparrows -- Hunger -- Red versus black -- The big link-up -- "No noble men" -- Rooftop underground -- The calm before the storm -- A call from heaven -- The endless sea -- Life and death in heaven's hands -- Life is a stream of water -- "Hey, Hong Kong! I'm back!" -- Epilogue : so much has changed, yet much remains the same.
A Chinese expatriate tells his story of escaping the hardship and repression of Mao's Cultural Revolution by joining the dissident underground, swimming miles across open water to Hong Kong, and eventually moving to the United States as a refugee.
9781419751509 1419751506
Wong, Kent--Childhood and youth.
Children--China--Biography.
Refugees--China--Biography.
Refugees--China--Hong Kong--Biography.
Refugees--United States--Biography.
Chinese Americans--Biography.
China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.