[PDF/Kindle] Swimming to Freedom: My Escape from China and the Cultural Revolution by Kent Wong

Swimming to Freedom: My Escape from China and the Cultural Revolution by Kent Wong Download Book ➡ Link Read Book Online ➡ Link Swimming to Freedom: My Escape from China and the Cultural Revolution Kent Wong Page: 320 Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2 ISBN: 9781419751509 Publisher: Abrams Press Free book download ipod Swimming to Freedom: My Escape from China and the Cultural Revolution by Kent Wong A deeply personal, heart-wrenching memoir of the author's upbringing in Communist China during the Cultural Revolution and his tenacious flight to freedom against all odds When Kent Wong was a young boy, his father, a patriotic Chinese official in the customs office in Hong Kong, joined an insurrection at work and returned with the family to the newly established People’s Republic of China. Hailed as heroes, they settled in the southern city of Canton. But Mao’s China was dangerous and unstable, with landlords executed en masse and millions dying of starvation during the Great Leap Forward. Kent Wong’s Swimming to Freedom is a memoir of a childhood amid revolutionary times, where boyish adventures and school days mixed with dire poverty and political persecution, and a moving story of an inextinguishable yearning to be free. Mao’s Hundred Flower Campaign ensnared Kent’s father. A decade later the Cultural Revolution closed schools, plunged the country into chaos, and scattered Kent and his sisters to disparate villages where they struggled to eke out a bare existence. Kent began to realize that with higher education closed to him (as the son of a “capitalist rightist”), he had no future in China. So, when he hooked up with a dissident underground and heard about fellow countrymen braving extraordinary hardship to reach freedom by swimming across miles of open water to Hong Kong, he decided to risk his life for a better future. Swimming to Freedom is an extraordinary account of a largely unknown chapter in history, when an estimated half million “Freedom Swimmers” risked everything to escape hardship and oppression. It is a gripping memoir and a moving testament to the human spirit. Sharen's review of Swimming to Freedom: My Escape fromAmazon.com New Releases: The best-selling new & futureSwimming to Freedom : My Escape from China - Books KinokuniyaSwimming to Freedom: My Escape from China - BookshopBooks | chapters.indigo.caWe salute the young boys and girls who made the escape to frWe are slaves who have been betrayedBuy Swimming to Freedom: My Escape from China and theSwimming to Freedom (My Escape from China and the CulturalBuy Swimming to Freedom: My Escape from China and the CulturalComing Soon - ABRAMS ABRAMS | Page 5 - ABRAMS BooksSwimming to Freedom: My Escape from China and the