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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