In the powerful tradition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Bitter Winds chronicles a brave man's triumph over mindless brutality and unimaginable oppression. On April 27, 1960, Harry Wu, a senior at Beijing's Geology Institute, was arrested by Chinese authorities and, without ever being formally charged or tried, spent the next nineteen years in hellish prison labor camps. Exiled to the bitter desolation of this extensive gulag, he was transformed from a member of China's privileged intellectual elite into a pariah, a faceless cipher denied even the most basic human rights.…
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Editions
3 editions · 2 languages
Other · English · 2007
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John · 9780470340769
Other · English · 1993
Wiley · 290 pages · 9780471556459
Other · Japanese · 1995
Bitā uinzu
NHK Shuppan · 396 pages · 9784140802038
Politics and governmentPolitical prisonersBiographyPolitieke gevangenenPolitischer GefangenerErlebnisberichtAutobiographieChina, politics and government, 1949-
