Table of Contents

The Execution of Mayor Yin
"Chairman Mao Is a Rotten Egg"
Night Duty
Residency Check
Jen Hsiu-lan
The Big Fish
Keng Erh in Peking
Nixon's Press Corps

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An updated edition of a classic work on China's Cultural Revolution

About the Author

Chen Ruoxi [Chen Jo-hsi] was born in Taiwan in 1938. She and her husband emigrated to mainland China in 1966 and lived there for the next seven years, and her experiences during that time are a source for the stories collected here. She lives in Taiwan.
Howard Goldblatt is Research Professor of East Asian Languages at the University of Notre Dame.
Perry Link is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University.

Reviews

.."."in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival--and sometimes the defeat--of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity.""

..."in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival--and sometimes the defeat--of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity."

..".in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival--and sometimes the defeat--of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity."

..".in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival--and sometimes the defeat--of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity."