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Woman from Shanghai : tales of survival from a Chinese labor camp

Yang, Xianhui

Overview

\"Between 1957 and 1960, nearly three thousand Chinese citizens were labeled \"Rightists\" by the Communist Part and banished to Jianiangou in China's northwestern desert region of Gansu to undergo \"reeducation\" through hard labor. These exiles men and women were subjected to horrific conditions, and by 1961 the camp was closed because of the stench of death: of the rougly three thousand inmates, only about five hundred survived.\" \"In 1997, Xianhui Yang traveled to Gansu and spent the next five years interviewing more than one hundred survivors of the camp. In Woman from Shanghai he presents thirteen of their stories, which have been crafted into fiction in order to evade Chinese censorship but which lose none of their fierce power. These are tales of ordinary people facing extraordinary tribulations, time and again securing their humanity against those who were intent on taking it away.\"--Jkt. of 2009 ed.

• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Subject: Jiabiangou (Concentration camp) Fiction. / Jiabiangou (Concentration camp) / Concentration camp inmates China Gansu Sheng Fiction. / Concentration camp inmates. / China Gansu Sheng.
• ISBN: 9780307390974, 0307390977

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PL2971.X53 G3613 2010	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE