No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison
A masterpiece. -The Washington PostIt was impossible. All of China was a prison in those days.Mao Zedong's labor reform camps, known as the laogai, were notoriously brutal. Modeled on the Soviet Gulag, they subjected their inmates to backbreaking labor, malnutrition, and vindictive wardens. They were thought to be impossible to escape-but one man did.Xu Hongci was a bright young student at the Shanghai No. 1 Medical College, spending his days studying to be a professor and going to the movies with his girlfriend. He was also an idealistic and loyal member of the Communist Party and was generally liked and well respected. But when Mao delivere…
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Weitere Autoren: Hongci, Xu
- ISBN: 978-0-374-21262-9
- EAN: 9780374212629
- Produktnummer: 19874944
- Verlag: Macmillan USA
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
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Xu Hongci; Translated from the Chinese and edited by Erling Hoh
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