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Life and Death in Shanghai

By Cheng , Nien

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers;Fourth Estate
Year
2010
ISBN
9780006548614, 9780007375615, 0007375611
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
505 kB (516664 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1915-2009;China -- History -- Cultural Revoluti1966-1976 -- Personal narratives;Humanities -- HisBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--General;Humanities--HisNien

Description

A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. All attempts to make her confess to the charges of being a British spy failed; all efforts to indoctrinate her were met by a steadfast and fearless refusal to accept the terms offered by her interrogators. When she was released from prison she was told that her daughter had committed suicide. In fact Meiping had been beaten to death by Maoist revolutionaries.

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