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For Ching-chih Wong, growing up in Communist China was like spending thirty years in a spiritual and intellectual icebox, where his progress and development as a human being were frozen still. <p>Wong was the well-educated and artistically minded fifteen-year-old son of a well-to-do Shanghai family when rumors of Communist "liberation" spread before the advance of Mao Tse-Tung's Red Army. Family members disagreed on the meaning of those rumors, but mostly ignored them. It couldn't be as bad as the rumors claimed, they thought; and if it was it couldn't last long.</p> <p>When "liberation" arrived, it was the end of Wong's youthful idyll of reading, study, and calligraphy lessons. For the next thirty years he plodded from job to job, as a journalist, teacher, editor, and translator, and as a farm and factory laborer, performing mostly meaningless work.</p> <p>It was an uninspiring, unsatisfying life, which Wong for the most part endured tenaciously. However, his "reactionary" family background and his own refusal to take the Communist revolution seriously made him the target of abuse whenever a scapegoat was needed, especially during the Cultural Revolution, which Wong refers to as t

Author

Wong, Ching-Chih Yi-Ling, 1933-

Publisher

Daniel & Daniel, Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781564743336

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir