Download No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison AudioBook Free
Mao Zedong's labor reform camps were notoriously brutal; modeled after the Soviet gulag, their inmates were at the mercy of backbreaking labor, malnutrition, and vindictive wardens. These were regarded as impossible to flee - but one man did. Xu Hongci, a young medical learner, was a dedicated member of the Communist Party until he fell sufferer to Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Marketing campaign in 1957. After placing a criticism of the get together, he spent the next 14 years in the labor camps. Despite horrific conditions and dreadful possibilities, Hongci was motivated to escape, failing 3 x before he been successful in 1972. Originally posted in Hong Kong, Hongci's impressive memoir recounts his life from childhood through his jail break. After discovering the booklet in a Hong Kong library, the journalist Erling Hoh monitored down the original manuscript and put together this abridged translation of Hongci's memoir, which includes background upon this turbulent period and an epilogue pursuing Hongci up to his death in 2008. Almost nobody was able to avoid from Mao's labor camps, but No Wall structure Too High explains to the true story of a person who did.
