Description
During China's Cultural Revolution, Nien Cheng, a fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai, was accused of being a British spy and locked up in solitary confinement for 6 1/2 years. When she was finally released to face years of further harassment and intimidation she learned that her daughter had been beaten to death by over-zealous Red Guards.
This extraordinary book is the story of her struggle to survive against all the odds, defying her brutal interrogators and steadfastly maintaining her innocence.
ISBN : 9780586071151