Confessions An Innocent Life in Communist China

Name: Confessions An Innocent Life in Communist China
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ISBN: 9780393064674

ISBN-10: 0393064670

ISBN-13: 9780393064674

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kang Zhengguo, Susan Wilf, Perry Link, Z. C. Kang

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A revealing memoir of human resilience in the face of nightmarish power. With clear vision this intimate memoir draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of "Liberation" in 1949 through the Tiananmen Square protests and after. The son of a professional family, Kang Zhengguo is a free spirit, drawn to literature. In Mao's China, these innocuous circumstances expose him at the age of twenty to a fierce struggle session, expulsion from university, and a four-year term of hard labor in Xian's Number Two Brickyard. So begins his long stay in the prison-camp system, a story of hardship and poignance, of warmth and humor in the face of cruelty. He…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/17/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Susan Wilf teaches at George School in Pennsylvania and was awarded a PEN Translation Fund Grant for Confessions.



List of Illustrations


Introduction




Liberation



Silent Garden



My Diaries



Freshman Year



A Glib Confession



Emergency Transfer



Expulsion



The Dregs of Society



The Gates of Hell



Disaster Strikes



Dreams of Freedom



Unwelcome Guests



Runaway



Dr. Zhivago



Underground in Xi'an



A Chance Encounter



Love in an Abandoned Temple



Lessons from a Goddess of Love



Arrested



Prisoner Number Two



Interrogation



Food Fantasies



The Verdict



The Holding Cell



Induction



A Shattered Dream



An Overdose of Potatoes



Sisyphean Labors



The Rope of the Law



Stolen Treats



Release



Homecoming



Adopted Son



Reincarnation as a Peasant



My Adoptive Father



A City Slicker in the Countryside



A Skillful Mechanic



An Old Flame



Clock Repairman



A Fleeting Idyll



Back in the Cooler



The Forbidden Radio



Father's Death



My Wife



A Woman Is the Heart of a Home



Thaw



A Recurring Nightmare



You Can't Go Home Again



A Small World



"Aim Your Guns Here"



Exodus



My Nightmare Comes True



Arrested Again



Farewell to China



Breaking the Silence



Epiphany


Epilogue: My Children


Translators Note


Index