false 6471933 1 <b>One of China’s most celebrated and controversial writers gives us a work of fact-based fiction that reveals first-hand—and for the first time in English—what life was like in one of Mao’s most notorious forced labor camps. </b><br><br>Between 1957 and 1960, three thousand Chinese citizens were labeled “rightists” by the Communist Party and banished to Jiabiangou in China’s northwestern desert region of Gansu to undergo “reeducation” through hard labor. These exiled men and women were subjected to horrific conditions, and by 1961 the camp was closed because of the stench of death: of the three thousand inmates, only six hundred survived. <br><br>In 1997, Xianhui Yang traveled to Gansu and spent the next three years interviewing more than one <br>hundred survivors of the camp. In <i>Woman from Shanghai </i>he presents twelve of their stories, which <br>have been crafted into fiction in order to evade Chinese censorship but which lose none of their fierce power. These are tales of ordinary people facing extraordinary tribulations, time and again securing their humanity against those who were intent on taking it away. <br><br>Xianhui Yang gives us a remarkable synthesis of journalism and fiction—a timely, important, and uncommonly moving book. 6662936 4 8 2009 Woman from Shanghai: Tales of Survival from a Chinese Labor Camp total:4|5:0|4:2|3:1|2:1|1:0| 4 13 26 3 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 4 0 false Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 13:07:55 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 06:10:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 2 0 false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 17:30:59 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 20:25:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 4 0 false Sun Nov 01 12:57:33 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 12:57:59 -0800 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 0 0 false Thu Nov 19 19:39:34 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 19:39:34 -0800 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 0 0 false Sun Nov 15 11:50:11 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 11:50:11 -0800 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 0 0 false Thu Nov 05 07:30:29 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 07:30:29 -0800 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 0 0 false Sat Oct 10 09:34:42 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 09:34:42 -0700 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 0 0 false Tue Oct 06 07:40:15 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 07:40:15 -0700 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 0 0 false Tue Oct 06 06:29:02 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 06:29:02 -0700 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 0 0 false Sat Oct 03 19:44:40 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 19:44:40 -0700 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 0 0 false Thu Oct 01 06:34:03 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 06:34:03 -0700 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 0 0 false Sat Sep 26 15:55:38 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 15:55:38 -0700 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 0 0 false Sun Sep 20 13:46:43 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 13:46:43 -0700 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 3 0 false Tue Oct 06 13:31:07 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 08:05:20 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 13:31:07 -0700 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 0 0 false Sat Aug 29 23:20:21 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 23:24:18 -0700 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 0 0 false Wed Aug 26 13:43:02 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 13:43:02 -0700 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 0 0 false Tue Aug 25 17:01:22 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 17:01:22 -0700 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 0 0 false Tue Aug 25 08:57:24 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 08:57:24 -0700 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 0 0 false Tue Aug 25 07:43:08 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 07:43:29 -0700 2009 6471933 0307377687 9780307377685 4 3 3.25 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6471933-woman-from-shanghai 0 0 false Tue Aug 25 05:59:08 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 05:59:08 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6471933