Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng5/24/2023 All attempts to make her confess to the charges of being a British spy failed all efforts to indoctrinate her were met by a steadfast and fearless refusal to accept the terms offered by her interrogators. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. This is a first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. This extraordinary book is the story of her struggle to survive against all the odds, defying her brutal interrogators and steadfastly maintaining her innocence Includes index 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. 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.
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