Life and Death in Shanghai

Informationen zum Autor Nien Cheng Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Nien Cheng
• Publisher: Flamingo
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.05.1995
• EAN: 9780006548614
• ISBN: 978-0-00-654861-4
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book; China, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Autobiography: general, Mao Zedong, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Asia / China, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), HISTORY / Military / Revolutions & Wars of Independence