Blood letters : the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China / Lian Xi.
- Author:
- Lian, Xi
- Additional Titles:
- Untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China
- Published:
- New York : Basic Books, [2018]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2018
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 331 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Contents:
- Introduction -- 1. To Live under the Sun -- 2. Exchanging Leather Shoes for Straw Sandals -- 3. The Crown -- 4. A Spark of Fire -- 5. Shattered Jade -- 6. Lamplight in the Snowy Fields -- 7. The White-Haired Girl of Tilanqiao -- 8. Blood Letters Home -- Afterword.
- Summary:
- "Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in 1960 and executed eight years later, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. The only Chinese citizen known to have openly and steadfastly opposed communism under Mao, she rooted her dissent in her Christian faith--and expressed it in long, prophetic writings done in her own blood, and at times on her clothes and on cloth torn from her bedsheets."--Page [2] of cover.
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- ISBN:
- 9781541644236
1541644239 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-317) and index.
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