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001 2006103103
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005 20071109083047.0
008 061226s2007 nyua b 001 0aeng
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050 00 $aPL2869.N565$bZ47713 2007
082 00 $a895.1/351$aB$222
100 1 $aKang, Zhengguo.
240 10 $aWo de fan dong zhi shu.$lEnglish
245 10 $aConfessions :$ban innocent life in Communist China /$cKang Zhengguo ; translated by Susan Wilf.
260 $aNew York :$bW. W. Norton,$cc2007.
300 $axxiv, 455 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aThis memoir of human resilience in the face of nightmarish power draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of "Liberation" in 1949 through the Tiananmen Square protests and after. The son of a professional family, Kang is a free spirit, drawn to literature. In Mao's China, these innocuous circumstances expose him at the age of twenty to a fierce struggle session, expulsion from university, and a four-year term of hard labor in Xi'an's Number Two Brickyard. So begins his long stay in the prison-camp system, a story of hardship and poignance, of warmth and humor in the face of cruelty. He finally escapes by forfeiting his identity: at age twenty-eight he is adopted by an aging bachelor in a peasant village, enabling him to start a new life. Rehabilitated after Mao's death, Kang finds himself still subject to the recurring nightmare of party authority.--From publisher description.
546 $aTranslated from the Chinese.
600 10 $aKang, Zhengguo.
650 0 $aAuthors, Chinese$y20th century$vBiography.
700 1 $aWilf, Susan.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip077/2006103103.html