No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison, (Paperback)

from Stbalbach

No Wall Too High is riveting true adventure and provides insights into a laogai ("labor reform") camp, the Chinese version of the Gulag ca. 1960s and 70s. It's based on a rough manuscript that had a regional audience in China. The translator, Erling Hoh, found it by accident in a small Hong Kong ...

from froxgirl

This posthumous autobiography demonstrates the horrors of extreme dictatorship and wrong-headedness. Xu Hongci began his political life as a student whose school was invited to voice their criticisms of Mao's government by creating wall posters. Once the regime realized that a gigantic can of wor...

from froxgirl

This posthumous autobiography demonstrates the horrors of extreme dictatorship and wrong-headedness. Xu Hongci began his political life as a student whose school was invited to voice their criticisms of Mao's government by creating wall posters. Once the regime realized that a gigantic can of wor...