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GtrsRGr8 · 04-11-2015, 10:36 PM

Life and Death in Shanghai. By Nien Cheng. Rated 4 1/2 stars, from 239 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $18.00; digital list(?) price $8.00; Kindle price now $1.99. HarperCollins Publishers, publisher. 562 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Life-Death-Sha.../dp/B004FGMSGO.

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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.

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GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Life and Death in Shanghai. By Nien Cheng. Rated 4 1/2 stars, from 239 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $18.00; digital list(?) price $8.00; Kindle price now $1.99. HarperCollins Publishers, publisher. 562 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Life-Death-Sha.../dp/B004FGMSGO. Book Description <snip> 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. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 04-12-2015 at 02:26 PM.