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Life and Death in Shanghai
by Cheng, Nien
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394555481
- ISBN 13
- 9780394555485
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Grove Press, New York. 1987,, 1987. Hardcover. Good/Good. Octavo, hardcover, previous owner's label on endppr, else good in lightly edgeworn blue pictorial dj. A powerful and harrowing account of nearly seven years solitary confinement at the hands of the Red Guard during China's Cultural Revolution; and of the indomitable will and uncommon qualities of mind and character with which this educated widow of a former Kuomintang diplomat withstood her persecutors until her eventual release. 547 pp. with index.
Synopsis
Life and Death in Shanghai is an autobiography published in November 1987 by Nien Cheng from exile in the United States which details Cheng's six-year imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution. The book tells the story of Cheng's arrest during the first days of the Cultural Revolution, her imprisonment, release, persecution, efforts to leave China, and early life in exile. Cheng was arrested in late 1966 after Red Guards looted her home.
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Details
- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2970a
- Title
- Life and Death in Shanghai
- Author
- Cheng, Nien
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0394555481
- ISBN 13
- 9780394555485
- Publisher
- Grove Press, New York. 1987,
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
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