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This is the extraordinary story of an extraordinary woman who, despite 6 1/2 long years of imprisonment and torment in Communist China, not only survived but endured and even prevailed. It is a story that began more than 20 years ago but has special relevance today. That is so partly...
I decided that if I was going to survive the Cultural Revolution, I needed physical and mental exercise. I devised a series of exercises that moved every part of my body from my head to my toes; I did this twice a day. At first, the exercise exhausted me, and...
''Do you mean Liu Shaoqi?'' I asked. ''I assure you I have never met him.'' ''Liu was one of them.'' It occurred to me that when a Communist leader fell from grace, all who had ever worked with him were disgraced. So there must exist in the No. 1 Detention...
''What do they want?'' I drowsily asked my maidservant. ''They didn't say. But they behaved in a very unusual manner.'' ''Tell them I'll be down presently,'' I said. ''Give them a cold drink and some cigarettes.'' I did not hurry. I wanted time to think and be ready...
The young woman waiting to greet Nien Cheng outside the prison was not Meiping, as she still kept hoping, but her goddaughter Hean, the daughter of an old friend. Hean took Cheng to a small house where the released prisoner had been assigned two rooms on the second floor. But...