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  <title><![CDATA[Life and Death in Shanghai]]></title>
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  <default-description>Here is the haunting, inspirational account of Nien Cheng's six-and-a-half years as a political prisoner during Communist China's Cultural Revolution. &quot;A moving affirmation of the capacity for human endurance.&quot;--Los Angeles Times.</default-description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Nien Cheng]]></name>
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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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  <read_at>Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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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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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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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[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[I borrowed this book, not being really shure of what I was going to find in it. However as soon as I started reading it I just couldn't put it down. I was hooked by Nien Cheng's account of her own experience in communist China. How she lost everything that mattered to her. How she survived the abuse...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41039850">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book might have changed my outlook on life.  She was a woman living her life, thinking that perhaps the political breezes weren't exactly blowing her way but at the worst they'd just blow by -- and then she spent 6 years in solitary confinement, through freezing cold and starvation, to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43205536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was amazing. I didn't give it five stars because it lagged in some places. But her narration of the horrendous things that happened during China's cultural revolution make me ashamed that we weren't studying this in school when it was going on and shortly after. Why do we ignore Asia in ou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49150903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Began this book while studying and then backpacking in Asia in 1989. I can still remember flying into the Hong Kong airport reading this book, a sunny day, a beautiful port city and reading the intensity of one family's nightmare of living through the Cultural Revolution.<br/><br/>Just turns out tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42609573">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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    <review id="68417291">
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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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    <review id="18466598">
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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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  <read_at>Wed Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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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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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[After my second time reading this book (the first was a few years ago in college) I'm pleased to discover that it's really as powerful and moving as I remember it being. I read it this time with my husband and it was awesome to have someone to talk about it with. Although, the number of times in our...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13025668">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished this book; an incredible woman's true account of her life in China, imprisoned in solitary confinement for over six years during the Cultural Revolution.  I can't walk down the streets of China now without looking at people old enough to have been alive during the Mao-caused ten-year...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47122451">more...</a>]]></body>
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