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Captive spirits : prisoners of the Cultural Revolution / Yang Xiguang and Susan McFadden.
Van Pelt Library DS778.7 .Y4313 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yang, Xiaokai.
- Standardized Title:
- Niu gui she shen lu. English
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yang, Xiaokai.
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Personal narratives.
- China.
- History.
- Political prisoners--China--Anecdotes.
- Political prisoners.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Anecdotes.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- Captive Spirits is the gripping prison memoir of Yang Xiguang, a high school student who was arrested during the Cultural Revolution for writing a political essay. He spent the next ten years in a succession of Chinese gulags and vividly relates the poignant stories of his cellmates--activists, intellectuals, "rightists," thieves, and madmen--as well as his own intellectual and spiritual journey.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0195868455
- OCLC:
- 36509890
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