![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact Meiping had been beaten to death by Maoist revolutionaries. When she was released from prison she was told that her daughter had committed suicide. All attempts to make her confess to the charges of being a British spy failed all efforts to indoctrinate her were met by a steadfast and fearless refusal to accept the terms offered by her interrogators. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. Cheng's book about her ordeal, Life and Death in Shanghai, was written in. Independent Bookshop Editions and Autographed BooksĪ first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. (1987) Nien Cheng was born in 1915, the daughter of an affluent landowner. ![]()
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