ON my bookshelf are two books that gave me invaluable insights into a shocking chapter of modern Chinese history.
These are Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng (published in 1984) and Wild Swans by Jung Chang (1992). Both are critically acclaimed books by two women who lived and survived China’s Cultural Revolution, a time when madness ruled that nation.
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