Bibliograph

Swimming to freedom, my escape from China and the Cultural Revolution : an untold story, Kent Wong

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Swimming to freedom, my escape from China and the Cultural Revolution : an untold story, Kent Wong

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Swimming to freedom

Oclc number

1249442483

Responsibility statement

Kent Wong

Sub title

my escape from China and the Cultural Revolution : an untold story

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

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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