At around three o'clock that afternoon, the van pulled up in front of the detention house, a three-story cement building with tiny windows reminiscent of the apertures in the ancient city walls through which soldiers had shot the Mongolians from their horse-backs with arrows.
An edition of The Visiting Suit: Stories From My Prison Life
(2010)
The Visiting Suit
Stories From My Prison Life
by Xiaoda Xiao
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These stories have appeared in the following publications: "The Spring Festival" (The Brooklyn Rail); "Li Minchu -- The Cost of a Dream" (Guernica Magazine); "He Begins to Talk" (Confrontation); "The Visiting Suit" (Antaeus); "Release" (The Atlantic Monthly).
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forced labor, political persecution, political prisoners, prison, Political prisoners, Fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, biographical, Fiction, political, Imprisonment, Biography, Anecdotes, Social conditions, Prisons, History, Forced labor, Political persecutionTimes
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The Visiting Suit: Stories From My Prison Life
2010, Two Dollar Radio
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Table of Contents
Arrest. 3
Confession. 19
Everybody's Turn. 39
A Thorough Materialist Has Nothing to Fear. 59
The Frightened Birds. 73
The Spring Festival. 100
A Hero on the Cement Yard. 112
Love on the Construction Site. 126
In the Women Inmates' Farm. 136
The Beautiful Woman and the Coal Balls. 148
Li Minchu -- The Cost of a Dream. 159
The Devil's Trill. 172
He Begins to Talk. 194
In the Prison Hospital. 219
The Visiting Suit. 234
Release. 251
Acknowledgements. 265
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From back cover: A poignant and incredibly moving memoir-in-stories that chronicles the hardships facing the prisoners in one of Mao's forced labor camps. Much more than simply an account of senseless oppression and brutality in Mao's China, this is a skillfully crafted and moving tale of man's will to survive with compassion, humor, grace and humanity intact.
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