Life and Death in Shanghai
by:
Nien Cheng (author)
Cheng Nien (author)
Here is the haunting, inspirational account of Nien Cheng's six-and-a-half years as a political prisoner during Communist China's Cultural Revolution. "A moving affirmation of the capacity for human endurance."--Los Angeles Times.
Here is the haunting, inspirational account of Nien Cheng's six-and-a-half years as a political prisoner during Communist China's Cultural Revolution. "A moving affirmation of the capacity for human endurance."--Los Angeles Times.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802145161 (0802145167)
Publish date: December 14th 2010
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 560
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Biography Memoir,
China
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No matter what other merits or lack thereof this book had, I'd give it 5 stars just for how much it got me thinking. Although I've read several books about the Cultural Revolution and even studied it in a class at a prestigious university, nothing brought it home like this book. It should be require...
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