Nien Cheng
Nien Cheng is a Chinese American author who recounted her harrowing experiences of the Cultural Revolution in her memoir Life and Death in Shanghai. Cheng became a target of attack by Red Guards due to her management of a foreign firm in Shanghai, Shell. Maoist revolutionaries used this fact to claim that Cheng was a British spy in order to strike at Communist Party moderates for allowing the firm to operate in China after 1949. Her book documents her amazing courage and fortitude that enabled her to survive her imprisonment.
Cheng endured six-and-a-half years of squalid and inhumane conditions in prison, all the while refusing to give any false confession. Her daughter Meiping Cheng, a prominent Shanghai film actress, was murdered by Maoist
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* Ma Boyong (English)
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马伯庸(1980年11月14日-),本名马力,朋友惯称“小白”,赤峰人,中国大陸作家,曾就职于施耐德电气(中国)投资有限公司,人稱「網路鬼才」、马亲王、亲王。作品涵蓋歷史、科幻、影視評論等諸多領域。
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