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Author: Xu Hongci Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0374212627 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 335
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Mao Zedong's labor reform camps were notoriously brutal; modeled after the Soviet gulag, their inmates were subject to backbreaking labor, malnutrition, and vindictive wardens. They were thought to be impossible to escape-but one man did.Xu Hongci, a young medical student, was a loyal member of the Communist Party until he fell victim to Mao's Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1957. After posting a criticism of the party, he spent the next fourteen years in the labor camps. Despite horrific conditions and terrible odds, Hongci was determined to escape, failing three times before he succeeded in 1972. Hongci broke out of a prison near the Burmese border, traveled across China to see his mother in Shanghai one last time, and then finally crossed the Mongolian border. There he eventually married and settled into a new life, until he was able to return home after Mao's death.Originally published in Hong Kong, Hongci's remarkable memoir recounts his life from childhood through his prison break. After discovering the book in a Hong Kong library, the journalist Erling Hoh tracked down the original manuscript and compiled this abridged translation of Hongci's memoir, which includes background on this turbulent period, an epilogue following Hongci up to his death in 2008, and Hongci's own drawings and maps. Almost nobody was able to escape from Mao's labor camps, but No Wall Too High tells the true story of someone who did.
Author: Xu Hongci Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0374212627 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 335
Book Description
Mao Zedong's labor reform camps were notoriously brutal; modeled after the Soviet gulag, their inmates were subject to backbreaking labor, malnutrition, and vindictive wardens. They were thought to be impossible to escape-but one man did.Xu Hongci, a young medical student, was a loyal member of the Communist Party until he fell victim to Mao's Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1957. After posting a criticism of the party, he spent the next fourteen years in the labor camps. Despite horrific conditions and terrible odds, Hongci was determined to escape, failing three times before he succeeded in 1972. Hongci broke out of a prison near the Burmese border, traveled across China to see his mother in Shanghai one last time, and then finally crossed the Mongolian border. There he eventually married and settled into a new life, until he was able to return home after Mao's death.Originally published in Hong Kong, Hongci's remarkable memoir recounts his life from childhood through his prison break. After discovering the book in a Hong Kong library, the journalist Erling Hoh tracked down the original manuscript and compiled this abridged translation of Hongci's memoir, which includes background on this turbulent period, an epilogue following Hongci up to his death in 2008, and Hongci's own drawings and maps. Almost nobody was able to escape from Mao's labor camps, but No Wall Too High tells the true story of someone who did.
Author: Len Frier Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group ISBN: 1634133048 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 240
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In 1970 Congress created OSHA "to ensure that every man and woman in the nation had safe and healthy working conditions." This act had the side effect of limiting the approval of all electrical, electronic and electro-medial devices sold in the United Statges. Leonard Frier, founder and owner of an independent electrical testing laboratory, was determined to have the right to compete in this marketplace. Unfortunately, Underwriters Laboratories (UL) continued to be the only business inspectors would accept laboratory tests from. Leonard knew that his dream of becoming a competitor should be attainable, and he fought a fifteen-year battle for that dream to become a reality. It was Leonard's fighting nature that allowed him to successfully navigate the onerous justice system and come out on top. No Wall Too High candidly discusses the struggle of one individual to achieve the American dream.
Author: Xu Hongci Publisher: Rider ISBN: 9781846044960 Category : China Languages : en Pages : 336
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'ONE OF THE GREATEST ESCAPE STORIES I'VE EVER READ' MAIL ON SUNDAY It was one of the greatest prison breaks of all time, during one of the worst totalitarian tragedies of the 20th Century. Xu Hongci was an ordinary medical student when he was incarcerated under Mao's regime and forced to spend years of his youth in some of China's most brutal labour camps. Three times he tried to escape. And three times he failed. But, determined, he eventually broke free, travelling the length of China, across the Gobi desert, and into Mongolia. This is the extraordinary memoir of his unrelenting struggle to retain dignity, integrity and freedom; but also the untold story of what life was like for ordinary people trapped in the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.
Author: Xu Hongci Publisher: Rider ISBN: 9781846044984 Category : China Languages : en Pages : 336
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'One of the greatest escape stories I've ever read' Mail on Sunday An ordinary man's extraordinary escape from Mao's brutal labour camps Xu Hongci was an ordinary medical student when he was incarcerated under Mao's regime and forced to spend years of his youth in China's most brutal labour camps. Three times he tried to escape. And three times he failed. But, determined, he eventually broke free, travelling the length of China, across the Gobi desert, and into Mongolia. It was one of the greatest prison breaks of all time, during one of the worst totalitarian tragedies of the 20th Century. This is the extraordinary memoir of his unrelenting struggle to retain dignity, integrity and freedom; but also the untold story of what life was like for ordinary people trapped in the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.
Author: Hongci Xu Publisher: Rider ISBN: 9781846044977 Category : China Languages : en Pages : 336
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'One of the greatest escape stories I?ve ever read? Mail on SundayAn ordinary man?s extraordinary escape from Mao?s brutal labour campsXu Hongci was an ordinary medical student when he was incarcerated under Mao?s regime and forced to spend years of his youth in China?s most brutal labour camps. Three times he tried to escape. And three times he failed. But, determined, he eventually broke free, travelling the length of China, across the Gobi desert, and into Mongolia. It was one of the greatest prison breaks of all time, during one of the worst totalitarian tragedies of the 20th Century.This is the extraordinary memoir of his unrelenting struggle to retain dignity, integrity and freedom; but also the untold story of what life was like for ordinary people trapped in the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.
Author: Cheng Nien Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN: 0802145167 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 561
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A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.
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