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Description edit
This is a first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. All attempts to make her confess to the charges of being a... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Mao Zedong: Add a description of this character.
- Mrs. Zhu
- Da De
- Jiang Qjng
- Zhou Enlai
- Winnie
- Lin Biao
- Liu Shaoqi
- Li Zhen
- Scott
- Huang Zuolin
- Hua Guofeng
- Henry
- John
- Zhang Chunqiao
- Chairman Mao
- Jiang Qing
- Lu Ying
- Li Tong
- Mommy
- Liu Shaogi
- Chen Boda
- Little Fang
- Dr. Wu
- Wang Hongwen
- Antonioni
- Lenin
- Cook
- Zhang Hanfu
- Marx
- Ma Tianshui
- Hean
Setting & Locations edit
- Communist China
- Shanghai Museum
- Beijing
- Kuomintang
- United States
- Hong Kong
- Taiwan
- England
- Australia
- Nanjing Road
- Japan
- Britain
- London
- Soviet Union
- Europe
- Guiyang
- Chongqing
- People's Republic
- North China
- Tao Feng
- Shanghai Film Studio
- Tilanqiao
- Cultural Revolution
- Vietnam
- Tianjin
- America
- Tiananmen Square
- Suzhou
- Canada
- Austin
First Sentence edit
THE PAST IS FOREVER with me and I remember it all.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Nien Cheng (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1987
ISBN: 9780394555485
Page Count: 587
Publisher: Penguin Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1987
ISBN: 9780394555485
Page Count: 587
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 920
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Asia › China
- Books › History › Historical Study › Revolutionary
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs
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