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Nien cheng biography of george

          Cheng endured 6 1/2 years of solitary confinement and torture in prison, refusing to confess or bow to the will of her interrogators.

        1. A first-hand account of China's cultural Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao.
        2. Life and Death in Shanghai () is a memoir of huge sorrow and triumph by Nien Cheng, who has died aged 94; it could be read as symbolic of the story of.
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        4. Death in Shanghai”, an autobiography published in the United States in November by Nien Cheng.

          5. Life and Death in Shanghai () is a memoir of huge sorrow and triumph by Nien Cheng, who has died aged 94; it could be read as symbolic of the story of....

          Life and Death in Shanghai

          1987 autobiography

          Life and Death in Shanghai (Chinese: 上海生死劫) is an autobiographical memoir published in November 1987[1] by Chinese author Yao Nien-Yuan under the pen name Nien Cheng.

          Written while in exile in the United States, it tells the story of Cheng's arrest during the early days of the Cultural Revolution, her more than six years' of confinement, persecution, efforts to leave China, and life in exile.[2][3][4][5]

          Background

          Cheng was named "an enemy of the state" and arrested in late 1966 after the Red Guards looted her home.

          During her confinement, she was pressured to make a false confession that she was a spy for "the imperialists" because for many years after her husband's death she had continued to work as a senior partner for Shell in Shanghai.

          Cheng refused and was thus tortured.[6]

          She was eventually paroled under the pretense that her attitude had shown improvem