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"One of the greatest escape stories I’ve ever read...will live on as a timeless testament to the resilience of the human spirit" (MAIL ON SUNDAY)
"One of the most compelling and moving memoirs to emerge from Communist China...gripping." (LOS ANGELES TIMES)
"Riveting...There are many memoirs by Chinese imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), but I’ve never read one, by a loyal Party member, like this...While books such as this cannot be openly sold in China, Xu Hongci’s will of course be smuggled in and will amaze readers, especially those under forty." (JONATHAN MIRSKY, Literary Review)
"While there are notable victims' accounts of Nazi and Soviet atrocities, there has largely been silence from those who actually suffered at first hand the worst of Red China's astounding inhumanity to its own people. Xu's moving account [is] a must-read" (DAILY MAIL)
"Xu Hongci is China’s Louis Zamperini, an ordinary man who simply refused to be broken. To understand the deepest source of China’s rise, read Xu Hongci's astonishing epic, a tale of ingenuity, bravery and, most importantly, unshakeable determination. Xu’s chronicle, masterfully translated by Erling Hoh, is the story of modern China itself: the struggle for freedom of body and mind." (EVAN OSNOS, China correspondent at the New Yorker and author of the acclaimed Age of Ambition)
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"One of the most compelling and moving memoirs to emerge from Communist China...gripping." (LOS ANGELES TIMES)
"Riveting...There are many memoirs by Chinese imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), but I’ve never read one, by a loyal Party member, like this...While books such as this cannot be openly sold in China, Xu Hongci’s will of course be smuggled in and will amaze readers, especially those under forty." (JONATHAN MIRSKY, Literary Review)
"While there are notable victims' accounts of Nazi and Soviet atrocities, there has largely been silence from those who actually suffered at first hand the worst of Red China's astounding inhumanity to its own people. Xu's moving account [is] a must-read" (DAILY MAIL)
"Xu Hongci is China’s Louis Zamperini, an ordinary man who simply refused to be broken. To understand the deepest source of China’s rise, read Xu Hongci's astonishing epic, a tale of ingenuity, bravery and, most importantly, unshakeable determination. Xu’s chronicle, masterfully translated by Erling Hoh, is the story of modern China itself: the struggle for freedom of body and mind." (EVAN OSNOS, China correspondent at the New Yorker and author of the acclaimed Age of Ambition)
‘One of the greatest escape stories I’ve ever read’ Mail on Sunday
An ordinary man’s extraordinary escape from Mao’s brutal labour camps
Xu Hongci was an ordinary medical student when he was incarcerated under Mao’s regime and forced to spend years of his youth in China’s most brutal labour camps.
Three times he tried to escape. And three times he failed. But, determined, he eventually broke free, travelling the length of China, across the Gobi desert, and into Mongolia. It was one of the greatest prison breaks of all time, during one of the worst totalitarian tragedies of the 20th Century.
This is the extraordinary memoir of his unrelenting struggle to retain dignity, integrity and freedom; but also the untold story of what life was like for ordinary people trapped in the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.
An ordinary man’s extraordinary escape from Mao’s brutal labour camps
Xu Hongci was an ordinary medical student when he was incarcerated under Mao’s regime and forced to spend years of his youth in China’s most brutal labour camps.
Three times he tried to escape. And three times he failed. But, determined, he eventually broke free, travelling the length of China, across the Gobi desert, and into Mongolia. It was one of the greatest prison breaks of all time, during one of the worst totalitarian tragedies of the 20th Century.
This is the extraordinary memoir of his unrelenting struggle to retain dignity, integrity and freedom; but also the untold story of what life was like for ordinary people trapped in the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.
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- ÉditeurRider
- Date d'édition2017
- ISBN 10 1846044979
- ISBN 13 9781846044977
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages336
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No Wall Too High
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