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Life and Death in Shanghai

by Nien Cheng

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First published: 1986
Pages: 559

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Life and Death in Shanghai is an autobiographical memoir about Nien Cheng's life under China's communist regime. Cheng, a widow and Shell Oil employee, was targeted by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. Despite enduring brutal treatment and six years of solitary confinement, she maintained her innocence. The book details her persecution, resilience, and quest for justice after her release.

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Nien Cheng

Cheng and her husband worked for Shell in Shanghai, and after he died she stayed on as an adviser to the company, which in 1966 was enough for the Cultural Revolution to take her. She spent six and a half years in solitary confinement in the Number One Detention House, was beaten, and refused throughout to confess to spying for the British.

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