TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wong,Kent
TI  - Swimming to freedom: my escape from China and the Cultural Revolution : an untold story 
SN  - 9781419751509
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Abrams Press
KW  - Wong, Kent
KW  - Children
KW  - China
KW  - Biography
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Hong Kong
KW  - United States
KW  - Chinese Americans
KW  - History
KW  - Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -