Swimming to freedom
my escape from China and the Cultural Revolution an untold story
Book - 2021
A Chinese expatriate tells his story of escaping the hardship and repression of Mao's Cultural Revolution by joining the dissident underground, swimming miles across open water to Hong Kong, and eventually moving to the United States as a refugee.
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New York :
Abrams Press,
2021.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue : "it's your time to fly away" -- Hong Kong is not China, and we are Chinese -- Chasing sparrows -- Hunger -- Red versus black -- The big link-up -- "No noble men" -- Rooftop underground -- The calm before the storm -- A call from heaven -- The endless sea -- Life and death in heaven's hands -- Life is a stream of water -- "Hey, Hong Kong! I'm back!" -- Epilogue : so much has changed, yet much remains the same. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Children |z China |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Refugees |z China |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Refugees |z China |z Hong Kong |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Refugees |z United States |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Chinese Americans |v Biography. | |
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