Life and death in Shanghai
by Nien Cheng · first published 1986
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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 Kai-shek'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
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I highly recommend reading Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng [0]. It's a factual, first-hand account of the China's Cultural Revolution and what living in a communist / socialist society is really like from an educated person's perspective. My inlaws…
on “My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starving Land” ↗See "Life and Death in Shanghai" by Cheng Nien, this isn't exactly "new" behavior for the Chinese government.
on “Interpol chief Meng Hongwei vanishes on trip to China” ↗…move to live with her relatives abroad. On the ship to Hong Kong, she kept thinking about her decision to return to China all those years ago. For those of you wondering, the book he was reading is "Life and Death in Shanghai" by Cheng Nien. For me, that was the most interesting part of the article. I know very little about modern Chinese history and this seems like an interesting place to start. https://www.amazon.com/Life-Death-Shanghai-Cheng-Nien/dp/080...
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