| Description |
xxx, 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Jonathan Unger -- Preface / Susan McFadden -- Pt. I. Zuojiatang Detention Center: February 1968-December 1969 -- Pt. II. Reconstruction Farm December: 1969-April 1970 -- Pt. III. Model Prison: April 1970-January 1971 -- Pt. IV. Back to the Farm: January 1971-May 1978 |
| Summary |
In the midst of the Cultural Revolution a Rebel Red Guard anonymously circulated an essay condemning the Chinese Party elite as a decadent, exploitative 'new red capitalist class'. The subversive yet truthful nature of the message stung the top Communist leadership in Beijing. Incredibly, the writer, Yang Xiguang, was only nineteen years old, a star high school pupil and the son of high-ranking Hunan officials. Denounced as a 'counterrevolutionary' by Chairman Mao himself, Yang was hunted down, arrested in 1968, and sentenced to ten years in prison. Captive Spirits is his remarkable story of life in the Chinese gulag during one of the most tumultuous periods of modern Chinese history |
| Notes |
Translated from the chinese by Susan McFadden |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Yang, Xiaokai.
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Political prisoners -- China -- Anecdotes.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024126 -- Personal narratives.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001714
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China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Personal narratives.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114651
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Author |
McFadden, Susan, 1952-
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| LC no. |
97010203 |
| ISBN |
0195868455 |
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