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This 6 page report
discusses the autobiographical account of Nien Cheng’s
experiences during China’s Cultural Revolution. “Life and Death
in Shanghai” by Nien Cheng requires that the reader or student be
particularly aware of the unique nuance of time and place and how
Cheng causes those aspects of the story to be as essential as the
actual characters of the book. Cheng’s crime was that she was
born into a wealthy, land-owning Chinese family. As a result of
her “privileged” background, she was put into solitary
confinement and ordered by Red Guards to confess to the crimes
they had trumped up against her. Quite simply and without much
fanfare . . . she refused. Throughout the book, the reader sees
the honesty, intelligence, and perseverance of one woman in the
face of horrific torture and oppression. Bibliography lists only
the primary source.
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as essential as the actual characters of the book. Chengs crime was that she was born into a wealthy, land-owning Chinese family. As a result of her "privileged" background, she
was put into solitary confinement and ordered by Red Guards to confess to the crimes they had trumped up against her. Quite simply and without much fanfare . . .
she refused. Throughout the book, the reader sees the honesty, intelligence, and perseverance of one woman in the face of horrific torture and oppression. Bibliography lists only the primary source.
BWshanhi.rtf "Life and Death in Shanghai" By: C.B. Rodgers - October 2001 -- for more
information on using this paper properly! Introduction Analyzing "Life and Death in Shanghai" by Nien Cheng requires that the reader or student be particularly aware of the unique nuance
of time and place and how Cheng causes those aspects of the story to be as essential as the actual characters of the book. In fact, she creates a realm
in which the reader understands that the ransacking of Chengs home, her confinement to a tiny cell for more than six years, and the murder of her daughter, were horrible
factors that, regardless of their horror, could not defeat the most elemental aspects of one womans sense of self and will to survive and tell her story. Her account
of her own struggle to survive her imprisonment during Chinas Cultural Revolution takes place against the backdrop created by the forces that tore apart every aspect of Chinese society during
the communist era. Chengs crime was that she was born into a wealthy, land-owning Chinese family. She was educated at Yenching University in Beijing and the London School of Economics
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