{"product_id":"woman-from-shanghai-tales-of-survival-from-a-chinese-labor-camp-paperback","title":"Woman from Shanghai: Tales of Survival from a Chinese Labor Camp - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eXianhui Yang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWoman from Shanghai, \u003c\/i\u003eXianhui Yang, one of China's most celebrated and controversial writers, gives us a work of fact-based fiction that reveals firsthand--and for the first time in English--what life was like in one of Mao's most notorious labor camps. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBetween 1957 and 1960, nearly three thousand Chinese citizens were labeled \"Rightists\" by the Communist Part and banished to Jianiangou in China's northwestern desert region of Gansu to undergo \"reeducation\" through hard labor. These exiles men and women were subjected to horrific conditions, and by 1961 the camp was closed because of the stench of death: of the rougly three thousand inmates, only about five hundred survived. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1997, Xianhui Yang traveled to Gansu and spent the next five years interviewing more than one hundred survivors of the camp. In \u003ci\u003eWoman from Shanghai\u003c\/i\u003e he presents thirteen of their stories, which have been crafted into fiction in order to evade Chinese censorship but which lose none of their fierce power. These are tales of ordinary people facing extraordinary tribulations, time and again securing their humanity against those who were intent on taking it away. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eXianhui Yang gives us a remarkable synthesis of journalism and fiction--a timely, important and uncommonly moving book.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXianhui Yang \u003c\/b\u003elives in Tianjin, China. \u003ci\u003eWoman from Shanghai \u003c\/i\u003eis his first book to be translated into English. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWen Huang\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and translator whose articles and translations have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eParis Review, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Asian Literary Review, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Chicago Tribune \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor. \u003c\/i\u003eHe translated Chinese writer Liao Yiwu's \u003ci\u003eThe Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up.\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 8.02 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 24, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52580867178803,"sku":"9780307390974","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/fL0bjbO-J09780307390974.webp?v=1761533625","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/woman-from-shanghai-tales-of-survival-from-a-chinese-labor-camp-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}