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...When I finished my first English-language novel, Lili, in 1998, it took me three years to find an American publisher. During that time, agents and publishers suggested that I publish Lili as a biography or memoir instead of as fiction. The commercial success of Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai, Jung Chang's Wild Swans and Adeline Yeh Mah's Falling Leaves had proved that memoirs about China sell. When I refused to change categories, I was turned down. But when Ha Jin's novel Waiting became a best-seller in the U.S., my luck changed...
...generals in Beijing, says Andrew Nien-Dzu Yang, a Taiwan specialist on the Chinese military, "don't want a confrontation with the U.S.," but some of Beijing's rhetoric about the U.S. commitment to Taiwan has had a harsh tone. Whether with pure bluster or a touch of psy-war, a member of the general staff late last year told Chas. W. Freeman, a former U.S. diplomat in Beijing and Assistant Secretary of Defense, that "America will not sacrifice Los Angeles to protect Taiwan." At this point China lacks the military capability to bring off a successful invasion...
...THAT THE "EVIL EMPIRE" HAS COLLAPSED, MANY U.S. conservatives are eager to convert the Chinese to capitalism. Their nostalgic solution: RADIO FREE CHINA. The project would cost $110 million to launch and $34 million a year to operate. Among its critics is Chinese dissident Nien Cheng, author of Life and Death in Shanghai, the diary of her harsh 6 1/2-year imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution. Cheng notes that millions of Chinese are already devoted to Voice of America. And the new service might "give hard-liners an excuse to crack down on dissidents...
...articles are a bit like letters to the world, and sometimes the world writes back. A year ago, TIME published excerpts from the best-selling book Life and Death in Shanghai, the gripping account of Author Nien Cheng's ordeal during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. When Cheng, who now lives in Washington, opened her mailbox a few weeks ago, she found a package of some 50 letters from sixth-graders in Alberta, Canada, who were deeply moved by her story. They wrote after Teacher Loretta Hofmann used TIME's excerpts last semester in a history course on China at Airdrie...
...tung plunged China into the Cultural Revolution, a decade of madness during which millions were tortured or killed on ideological grounds. One victim was Nien Cheng, a diminutive but incredibly determined woman. In Life and Death in Shanghai, excerpted in this issue, she tells of her imprisonment, torture and ultimate triumph. See SPECIAL SECTION...