Tag: Nien Cheng

Nien Cheng, Memoirist, Is Dead at 94 Ms. Cheng’s memoir, “Life and Death in Shanghai,” offered a harrowing account of the Cultural Revolution in China. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/books/07cheng.html?partner=rss&emc=rss In 1973 she was told that the authorities had agreed to release her in recognition of an “improvement in her way of thinking and an attitude of repentance.”…