The national bestselling memoir of a woman's resistance and struggles in Communist China -- "an absorbing story of resourcefulness and courage" (The New York Times).

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

In August 1966, a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an obvious target for the fanatics of the Cultural Revolution: educated in London, the widow of an official of Chiang Kai-shek's regime, and an employee of Shell Oil. When she refused to confess that any of this made her an enemy of the state, she was placed in solitary confinement, where she would remain for more than six years.

Life and Death in Shanghai recounts the story of Nien Cheng's imprisonment -- a time of extreme deprivation which she met with heroic resistance -- as well as her quest for justice when she was released. It is also the story of a country torn apart by Mao Zedong's vicious campaign to topple party moderates. An incisive, personal account of a terrifying chapter in twentieth-century history, Life and Death in Shanghai is also an astounding portrait of one woman's courage.

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