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In 1966 12-year-old Lover Shen, a recently minted Red Shield, plunged happily into China's Cultural Trend. Disillusionment soon implemented, then considered disgust and dread when Shen discovered that his compatriots had tortured and murdered a health care provider whose house he'd helped raid and whose beautiful little girl he secretly adored. A story of coming of age amid monumental historical upheaval, Shen's Gang of One is greater than a memoir of 1 young man's harrowing experience throughout a time of terror. It is also, regardless of circumstances of remarkable grimness and injustice, an improbable picaresque story of adventure packed with courage, cunning, wit, tenacity, resourcefulness, and sheer luck - the storyplot of how Shen managed to structure his way through a hugely oppressive system and emerge triumphant. Gang of One recounts how Shen escaped, over and over, from his appointed fate. His hidden knowledge self-education required him from the manufacturer to school, where friendship with an American instructor gained him the wrath of the secret police. Carrying out a journey strewn with perils and pitfalls, twists and surprises worth Dickens, Shen's tale is finally an exuberant human comedy unlike some other.
