Imagine This…. You are sitting at the dining table, in your special red chair, with an indispensable cup of tea in hand. You're daughter is sitting across from you, panicking about her next exam and gulping down a quick glass of orange juice before she dashes off to school.
Wait for the harsh knock at the door, signalling the arrival of brutal communist revolutionaries, guards of a harsh dictator who have come to destroy you’re home, you're family and everything that you believe in, before carting you off to a repulsive detention centre where you will be tortured for six and a half years.
For Nien Cheng, author of life and death in Shanghai, a boo
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