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    <body><![CDATA[This book is one that I would definitely recommend to all readers. It is eloquently written and very engaging. It chronicles the imprisonment of a Western-educated business woman living in China during the Cultural Revolution.<br/><br/>It is a very intimate look at Mao Tse-Tung and how his philoso...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10478418">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a remarkable autobiography for several reasons:  one - Nien Cheng wrote this later in her life - I want to say her 50's or 60's in English, not her native language.  Secondly, it is an amazing account of the cultural revolution in China during the 60's, political and cultural events that lea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50848043">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a fantastic introduction to anyone who wants to know about the nightmare-on-earth that was the Cultural Revolution in china from 1966 to 1976.  it is a memoir, but it reads like a novel, which is really the whole point.  the truth of this decade was more amazing than most novelists could dre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5463518">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An amazing book by an amazing women. While Nien Cheng tellingly analyzes her own experience as a prisoner in communist China, she goes beyond herself and describes how individuals and communities responded to the pressures of communism and a cultural revolution. <br/>I particularly enjoyed the secon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14038927">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a thrift store find. . .if you peruse my list of books (not likely) you might notice a number stuck-in-prison-for-some-reason memoirs. I'm drawn to the brutality. What's amazing about this book is its umm &quot;insider's&quot; view of the Cultural Revolution. Nein Cheng was a &quot;capitalis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80430900">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVED this book.  At first this book was REALLY hard for me to get into.  This is not an easy read by any means.  Please, if you start this book, finish it.  I promise it will be worth it.  I learned so many invaluable lessons by reading this book.<br/>The biggest and most important lesson I lear...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71620973">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Nien Cheng was an amazingly intelligent, courageous, honorable, and patriotic individual despite being betrayed by the chinese government during the cult revolution years. i was full of admiration for her by the end of the life and was really touched by her ability to forgive even the most unforgiva...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6365245">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought the late 60s in the US were a time of radical change, but they're nothing compared to how Mao's Red Guards turned China upside down. I live in Shanghai where this memoir took place. Surprisinly, there's very little local history preserved. No walking tours, nothing much in the Shanghai Mus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62907774">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a must read for everyone - a real eye opener. I bought this book at a previous book club and opened its pages kicking and screaming.  I did not want to read this book.   BUT I loved it even more the 2nd time.  This is a tribute to the stamina of the human spirit and the will to live.  I am i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54070220">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of the most remarkable books I've read.  Nien Cheng is an amazing person to have withstood the physical, emotional and mental challenge of surviving not only 6 1/2 years in a Chinese solitary prison cell but then 7 more years of being spied on after her release.  Her strength of charact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43760724">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book because I read Nien Cheng's obituary in the paper earlier this month, and was interested to read about a woman who would, on principal, refuse to leave prison in China. That turned out to be the least of this woman's many demonstrations of super-human strength.  She knew what w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81936422">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a non-fiction account of the author's life in communist China which included a 6 year imprisonment, torture, and humilation at the hands of the government.  The good, the bad, and the ugly of this book:  The bad -- The narration includes a lot of political history and jargon that really...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68417291">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't know if I'd like this book, but I tackled it for book club, and I'm glad I read it.  I knew a little about the cultural revolution in Maoist China, but to read about it from the author's point of view was very enlightening.  She was falsely accused of various ridiculous charges and held in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31368512">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Life and Death in Shanghai is Nien Cheng’s personal memoire and it provides a fascinating (as well as heartbreaking) look at the Chinese Cultural Revolution and life under Chairman Mao during the 1960s and 1970s. The author spent <br/>6½ years in prison/solitary confinement because the communist...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18466598">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is Nien Cheng's experience during the Cultural Revolution in China.  It is fascinating.  She was imprisoned for 6 1/2 years and considered an &quot;enemy to the people&quot; nearly until the time she left China in 1980.  The reason for her imprisonment was that she was considered a capital...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16383199">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Nien Cheng is really a remarkable woman!  She was falsely imprisoned during China's Cultural Revolution and her daughter was listed as a &quot;suiside&quot; even though she was no doubt tortured to death.  The shifting sands of communist control was a struggle to feret out and her only resource was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16070013">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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