![]() BOMC main selection author tour.Ĭopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. Its intelligence, passion and insight assure its place among the distinguished voices of our age proclaiming the ascendancy of the human spirit over tyranny. ![]() ![]() ![]() The candor and intimacy of this affecting memoir make it addictive reading. The book is about her imprisonment during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. When the political climate softened, and she was released, Cheng learned that her fears were justified: Meiping had been beaten to death when she refused to denounce her mother. Nien Cheng spoke about her book, Life And Death in Shanghai. Despite harsh privationeven tortureshe refused to confess and was kept in solitary confinement for over six years, suffering deteriorating health and mounting anxiety about the fate of her only child, Meiping. As the rumblings fast became a cataclysm, Cheng found herself a target of the revolution: Red Guards looted her home, literally grinding underfoot her antique porcelain and jade treasures and she was summarily imprisoned, falsely accused of espionage. ![]() In 1966, only the merest rumblings of political upheaval disturbed the gracious life of the author, widow of the manager of Shell Petroleum in China. Life and Death in Shanghai is a highly readable account of one womans disen- chantment with the Peoples Republic of China. This gripping account of a woman caught up in the maelstrom of China's Cultural Revolution begins quietly. ![]()
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