Bitter winds : a memoir of my years in China's Gulag / Harry Wu and Carolyn Wakeman
Document type:
Book
Subtype of document:
Témoignage
Title:
Bitter winds : a memoir of my years in China's Gulag
Author zone:
Harry Wu and Carolyn Wakeman
Editor:
New York [etc.] : J. Wiley, 1994
Physical description:
VIII, 290 p. : photogr. ; 25 cm
ISBN:
978-0-471-55645-9
Languages:
English
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Abstract:
On April 27, 1960, Harry Wu, a senior at Beijing's Geology Institute, was arrested by Chinese authorities and, without ever being formally charged or tried, spent the next nineteen years in hellish prison labour camps. Exiled to the bitter desolation of this extensive gulag, he was transformed from a member of China's privileged intellectual elite into a pariah, a faceless cipher denied even the most basic human rights. He was subjected to grinding labour, systematic starvation, and torture, yet he refused to give up his passionate hold on life.
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| Call number | Availability / Due date |
|---|---|
| 400.1/71 | Available |