A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution.
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 1966 and subsequently jailed. All attempts to make her confess to the charges of being a British spy failed; all efforts to indoctrinate her were met by a steadfast and fearless refusal to accept the terms offered by her interrogators. When she was released from prison she was told that her daughter had committed suicide. In fact Meiping had been beaten to death by Maoist revolutionaries.
- ISBN10 0586071156
- ISBN13 9780586071151
- Publish Date 9 May 1995 (first published 24 July 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 November 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Flamingo
- Edition Re-issue
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 672
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk