TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hongci,Xu 
AU  - Hoh,Erling  (tr.)
TI  - NO WALL TOO HIGH : One Man’s Extraordinary Escape from Mao’s Infamous Labour Camps
SN  - 9781846044984
U1  - 920 
PY  - 2017////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Rider
KW  - Biography
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Memoir -- Hongci Xu
KW  - Translated from the Chinese
KW  - Xu, Hongci, -- 1933-2008 -- Imprisonment
KW  - Escapes -- China -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Prisons -- China
KW  - Forced labor -- China
KW  - China -- History -- 1949-1976
KW  - Escapes
KW  - Forced labor
KW  - Imprisonment
KW  - Political prisoners
KW  - China
N1  - 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.


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