NO WALL TOO HIGH : One Man’s Extraordinary Escape from Mao’s Infamous Labour Camps
Hongci,Xu
NO WALL TOO HIGH : One Man’s Extraordinary Escape from Mao’s Infamous Labour Camps Xu Hongci - 1 - London Rider 2017/01/01 - 314
The very rare, true story of resilience, courage and escape from Mao’s infamous Chinese 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.
9781846044984
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Biography
Autobiography
Memoir -- Hongci Xu
Translated from the Chinese.
Xu, Hongci, -- 1933-2008 -- Imprisonment.
Escapes -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Prisons -- China.
Forced labor -- China.
China -- History -- 1949-1976.
Escapes.
Forced labor.
Imprisonment.
Political prisoners
China.
920 / HON
NO WALL TOO HIGH : One Man’s Extraordinary Escape from Mao’s Infamous Labour Camps Xu Hongci - 1 - London Rider 2017/01/01 - 314
The very rare, true story of resilience, courage and escape from Mao’s infamous Chinese 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.
9781846044984
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Biography
Autobiography
Memoir -- Hongci Xu
Translated from the Chinese.
Xu, Hongci, -- 1933-2008 -- Imprisonment.
Escapes -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Prisons -- China.
Forced labor -- China.
China -- History -- 1949-1976.
Escapes.
Forced labor.
Imprisonment.
Political prisoners
China.
920 / HON