Life and Death in Shanghai

Life and Death in Shanghai Author: Nien Cheng
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Life and Death in Shanghai recounts the story of Nien Cheng’s imprisonment—a time of extreme deprivation which she met with heroic resistance—as well as her quest for justice when she was released.

Life And Death in Shanghai

Life And Death in Shanghai Author: Nien Cheng
Publisher: Turtleback Books

Here is the haunting, inspirational account of Nien Cheng's six-and-a-half years as a political prisoner during Communist China's Cultural Revolution. A moving affirmation of the capacity for human endurance.--Los Angeles Times.

Acting the Right Part

Acting the Right Part Author: Xiaomei Chen
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

... Life and Death in Shanghai can therefore be fruitfully analyzed as an inquiry into the Chinese woman as an “ autobiographical speaker , ” or as an agent of “ a conflicted history , inhabiting and transforming a complex social and cul ...

Young at Heart

Young at Heart Author: Anne Snowden Crosman
Publisher: Danforth Book Distribution

... Life and Death in Shanghai ( 1987 ) by Nien Cheng came to my attention . I'd read rave reviews but had no inkling of the high drama in the story . For several hours every day , I was riveted to a Chinese woman's account of life that ...

Shanghai Tai Chi

Shanghai Tai Chi Author: Hanchao Lu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

... death because she was married to Wu's grandson, Yan Erchun, and had ... Shanghai ming jianzhu zhi, 437–41. 101 Liu Sheng, “Left Behind.” 102 Interviews with Zhou ... Life Under Mao Zedong's Rule, 228. 106 Ibid., 228–9. 107 Wang Weiming ...

Asian American Autobiographers

Asian American Autobiographers Author: Guiyou Huang
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

... lives . BIBLIOGRAPHY Work by Nien Cheng Life and Death in Shanghai . Great Britain : Grafton Books , 1986. New York : Grove Press , 1986. New York : Penguin , 1988 . Studies of Nien Cheng Chisolm , Kate . Rev. of Life and Death in Shanghai ...

The "inscrutably Chinese" Church

The Author: Nathan Faries
Publisher: Lexington Books

... Life and Death in Shanghai ( New York : Penguin , 1986 ) , 62 , 130 . 5. Peter Rose , “ Cultural Revolution in China , Seen by Victim and Victimizer , " re- view of Life and Death in Shanghai , by Nien Cheng , Christian Science Monitor ...

The Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution Author: Frank Dikötter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

... Shanghai, see Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai, p. 125. 29 David Tsui, interview, 26 July 2012. 30 Hubei, 27 Feb. 1968, SZ139–6-49, pp. 54–5. 31 Shanghai, 27 March 1980, B1–9-228, pp. 73–6. 32 Ling, The Revenge of Heaven, pp. 46–7. 33 ...

The Rough Guide to Shanghai

The Rough Guide to Shanghai Author: Simon Lewis
Publisher: Rough Guides UK

... Shanghai (Allen Lane, UK). This readable but carefully researched tale humanizes the concession era by focusing on one English policeman who is both toughened and corrupted by his experiences. Nien Cheng Life and Death in Shanghai ...

Blood Letters

Blood Letters Author: Lian Xi
Publisher: Hachette UK

... Life and Death in Shanghai , 156–157 ; Selected Works of Mao : Lin Zhao , “ ZRMRB , ” 68–69 . 91. The interrogator had admonished her : Lin Zhao , “ ZRMRB , ” 78 ; At the No. 1 Detention ... in this place ” : Nien Cheng , Life and Death in ...