![]() Her manic search for his remains is complicated by his former roommate, who wants to prevent her from discovering that his corpse has been desecrated by cannibals. In the title story, a doctor’s wife arrives at Jiabiangou, unaware that her husband has starved to death. ![]() Over five years, Yang conducted almost 100 interviews with survivors and their relatives, gathering personal accounts of a tragedy that risks being relegated to the footnotes of history. Adapted from his acclaimed 2003 collection Farewell to Jiabiangou, the 13 short stories in this work are journalistic writings veiled with fictional elements, to avoid censorship. Woman From Shanghai: Tales of Survival from a Chinese Labor Camp is Tianjin-based author Xianhui Yang’s first book translated into English and a record of the extremities endured by Mao Zedong’s prisoners at Jiabiangou. There, in the country’s arid northwestern Gansu province, these political dissidents were to atone for actual or accused political beliefs, intellectual status, or capitalist family ties. ![]() Pantheon, 320 pp, $28.95, hardcoverīranded “Rightists” by China’s Communist Party and sentenced to undergo “reeducation through hard labor”, close to three thousand Chinese citizens were sent to the forced-labour camp Jiabiangou between 19. Woman From Shanghai: Tales of Survival From a Chinese Labor Campīy Xianhui Yang. ![]()
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