![]() ![]() ![]() After the complete economic failure of Chairman Mao’s Great Leap Forward, Mao was worried that his top place within the Communist Party of China was about to be overtaken. Published in 1987, Life and Death in Shanghai is an unflinching look at a time when revolutionary fervor strove to completely destroy the heritage and history of one of the world’s civilizations. This memoir focuses on Cheng’s own steely resolve to withstand abuse, torture, six years of solitary confinement, and a variety of other seemingly unbearable circumstances, as well as giving a broader overview of the way powershifts within the party led to the tremendous destruction of the Cultural Revolution. Years after escaping first to Canada and then to the US, author Nien Cheng (the pen name of Yao Nien-Yuan) published her autobiography about life under the communist regime in China, Life and Death in Shanghai. ![]()
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