30 Years in Deep Freeze : My Life in Communist China
By Ching-Chih Yi-Ling Wong"For Ching-chih Wong, growing up in Communist China was like spending thirty years in a spiritual and intellectual icebox, where his progress and development as a human being were frozen still." "When "liberation" arrived, it was the end of Wong's youthful idyll of reading, study, and calligraphy lessons. For the next thirty years he plodded from job to job, as a journalist, teacher, editor, and translator, and as a farm and factory laborer, performing mostly meaningless work." "It was an uninspiring, unsatisfying life, which Wong for the most part endured tenaciously. However, his "reactionary" family background and his own refusal to take the Communist revolution seriously made him the target of abuse whenever a scapegoat was needed, especially during the Cultural Revolution, which Wong refers to as the "Anti-Culture Movement."" "Wong describes all these tribulations with disarming patience and equanimity. He even candidly admits that he acted unwisely from time to time, engaging in extramarital affairs, displaying arrogance in the face of his accusers, and performing his work perfunctorily. Yet it was the same equanimity, patience, and candor that further infuriated party functionaries and revolutionary cadres and left Wong wearing his "rightist hat" long after others had had theirs removed." "After three decades of this life on ice, Wong reluctantly decided that no good would ever come of his situation, either for himself or for China, and in 1979, with the aid of relatives in the United States, he was finally allowed to leave China, never to return." "Thirty Years in Deep Freeze is the first English-language edition of C.C. Wong's memoir."--BOOK JACKET.. 17. Supplier P.
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