Engineering Communist China : one man's story / Youli Sun with Dan Lin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sun, You-Li, 1955-

Contributor:

Ling, Dan, 1933 or 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ling, Dan, 1933 or 1934-.

Ling, Dan.

China--Politics and government--1949-.

China.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

vii, 237 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Pub., [2003]

Summary:

Dan Ling, a patriotic young engineer eager to help build a new China, falls afoul of the authorities and spends 17 years as a political prisoner. Rehabilitated after Deng Xiaoping came to power, Dan returns to work with unflagging determination to help provide a good life for himself and his people after enduring prison, work camps and work farms, and the primitive lif e of the social outcast breaking new ground on the frozen northern frontier. Youli Sun is Director of American University's Beijing Program. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and did post-doctoral studies at Washington University; he is a specialist in American diplomatic history, modern Chinese history, and US-East Asian relations.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Communist Victory 7

Chapter 2 The Tank Factory 21

Chapter 3 The Great Leap Forward 33

Chapter 5 Arrest 59

Chapter 6 Detention Center 71

Chapter 7 Release 87

Chapter 8 The Yaohe Farm 95

Chapter 9 Beijing Interlude 103

Chapter 10 Black Commissar vs. Vicious Commissar 113

Chapter 11 Survival of the Fittest 125

Chapter 12 Exile in the Hinterlands 135

Chapter 13 Village Life 151

Chapter 14 Bajia Village 167

Chapter 15 Blind Migrants 183

Chapter 16 Frontier Settlement 191

Chapter 17 Contract labor 207

Chapter 18 Mountain Clearing Team 219

Chapter 19 Exoneration 231.

ISBN:

0875862411

0875862403

OCLC:

52271646