Description
| Product ID: | 9780006548614 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Life and Death in Shanghai |
| Authors: | Author: Nien Cheng |
| Page Count: | 512 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, Asian history, History, Asian history, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, China, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Flamingo |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1995-05-09 |
