Life and Death in Shanghai 978-0-8021-9615-6, 0802196152

Life and Death in Shanghai, Nien Cheng's searing memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, was an instant internat

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Life and Death in Shanghai
978-0-8021-9615-6, 0802196152

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Cheng Nien

Table of contents :
Content: Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Author's Note
Contents
I The Wind of Revolution
1 Witch-hunt
2 Interval before the Storm
3 The Red Guards
4 House Arrest
II The Detention House
5 Solitary Confinement
6 Interrogation
7 The January Revolution and Military Control
8 Party Factions
9 Persecution Continued
10 My Brother's Confession
11 A Kind of Torture
12 Release
III My Struggle for Justice
13 Where Is Meiping?
14 The Search for the Truth
15 A Student Who Was Different
16 The Death of Mao
17 Rehabilitation
18 Farewell to Shanghai
Epilogue
Index

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