8 edition of Nien Cheng found in the catalog.
Published
1992
by Blackbirch Press in Woodbridge, Conn
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Written in
A biography of the Chinese woman who, arrested during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, spent more than six years in solitary confinement and, despite severe punishment, refused to indict herself as a traitor.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 62) and index.
| Statement | by Robin Langley Sommer. |
| Series | The Library of famous women |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | CT1828.C5248 S65 1992 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 64 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 64 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL1722176M |
| ISBN 10 | 1567110118 |
| LC Control Number | 92025621 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 26211787 |
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Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in and subsequently jailed. All attempts to make her confess to the charges of being a British spy failed; all efforts.
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