- Biography, History, Personal narratives, Political prisoners
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.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Nien Cheng
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 547
- Publisher
- Grove Press, Xing guang chu ban she, Da hong tu shu you xian gong si
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Chinese, Japanese, vie, English
- ISBN
- 9780140108705
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