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Life and death in Shanghai / Nien Cheng.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Grove Press, 1987, c1986.Edition: 1st edDescription: ix, 547 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0394555481
  • 9780394555485
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Life and death in Shanghai.
Contents:
The Wind of Revolution -- Witch-hunt -- Interval before the Storm -- The Red Guards -- House Arrest -- The Detention House -- Solitary Confinement -- Interrogation -- The January Revolution and Military Control -- Party Factions -- Persecution Continued -- My Brother's Confession -- A Kind of Torture -- Release -- My Struggle for Justice -- Where Is Meiping? -- The Search for the Truth -- A Student Who Was Different -- The Death of Mao -- Rehabilitation -- Farewell to Shanghai.
Summary: The author tells of her solitary confinement and torture as a wealthy Chinese woman during the Cultural Revolution.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 951.056 C518 Available 33111002418578
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In August 1966 a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an obvious target for the fanatics of the Cultural Revolution: educated in London, the widow of an official of Chiang Kaishek's regime, and an employee of Shell Oil, Nien Cheng enjoyed comforts that few of her compatriots could afford. When she refused to confess that any of this made her an enemy of the state, she was placed in solitary confinement, where she would remain for more than six years. Life and Death in Shanghai is the powerful story of Nien Cheng's imprisonment, of the deprivation she endured, of her heroic resistance, and of her quest for justice when she was released. It is the story, too, of a country torn apart by the savage fight for power Mao Tse-tung launched in his campaign to topple party moderates. An incisive, rare personal account of a terrifying chapter in twentieth-century history, Life and Death in Shanghai is also an astounding portrait of one woman's courage. Book jacket.

The Wind of Revolution -- Witch-hunt -- Interval before the Storm -- The Red Guards -- House Arrest -- The Detention House -- Solitary Confinement -- Interrogation -- The January Revolution and Military Control -- Party Factions -- Persecution Continued -- My Brother's Confession -- A Kind of Torture -- Release -- My Struggle for Justice -- Where Is Meiping? -- The Search for the Truth -- A Student Who Was Different -- The Death of Mao -- Rehabilitation -- Farewell to Shanghai.

The author tells of her solitary confinement and torture as a wealthy Chinese woman during the Cultural Revolution.

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