cultural revolution, 1966-1969

A young woman's eyewitness account of China's Cultural Revolution and its lasting effects on Chinese society and personal lives.

Recounts the effect of the Cultural Revolution in China on intellectuals and schools and describes one woman's struggle to stay alive and continue her education.

Contains the autobiography of Liang Heng, a young man growing up in China in the 1950s during the Great Cultural Revolution.

The author tells about the happy life she led in China up until she was twelve-years-old when her family became a target of the Cultural Revolution, and discusses the choice she had to make between denouncing her father and breaking with her family, or refusing to speak against him and losing her future in the Communist Party.

Traces the life of the brave Chinese woman who described her years of imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution in her book, "Life and Death in Shanghai.".

A biography of the Chinese woman who, arrested during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, spent more than six years in solitary confinement and, despite severe punishment, refused to indict herself as a traitor.

The author tells of her solitary confinement and torture as a wealthy Chinese woman during the Cultural Revolution.

A memoir from a one-time supporter of the Maoist regime who experienced life in China as a member of the communist party and as a political prisoner on a labor farm.