Life and Death in Shanghai

Author: Nien Cheng 

Condition: Good

Paperback

496 pages

Discover this powerful biography/ history book of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

In August 1966, a group of Red Guards stormed Cheng’s home. With her privileged background—an education at the London School of Economics, a late husband who had served under Chiang Kai-shek, and a position at Shell Oil—she was an obvious target. Refusing to confess to being an enemy of the state, she was imprisoned in solitary confinement for over six years, enduring relentless deprivation and psychological torment.

This biography/ history book is Cheng’s gripping account of her imprisonment, her extraordinary resilience, and her determined pursuit of justice after her release. A testament to one woman’s unbreakable spirit, it also offers a harrowing and deeply insightful look into one of the darkest periods of the twentieth century.

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