Full title: No wall too high : one man's daring escape from Mao's darkest prison / Xu Hongci ; translated from the Chinese and edited by Erling Hoh.

Author/creator: Hoh, Erling, Xu, Hongci, 1933-2008.

Call Numbers: G 2017/6006

Record Identifier: 74VKVgyzPkgg

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xvi, 314 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm, , , , , , Map: Xu Hongci's escape routes -- How this book came to be -- The French will protect us (1933-1945) -- A heart is always red (1945-1949) -- In cold blood (1950-1951) -- I saw the Chairman (1952-1953) -- Khrushchev's secret speech (1954-1056) -- Not of this world (1956) -- A breath of fresh air (1957) -- Rip him to pieces (July 1957-April 1958) -- The forgotten archipelago (April-December 1958) -- Escape (December 1958-February 1959) -- On the brink of freedom (February-April 1959) -- Fiddlehead congee (1959-1960) -- Angel of death (1960-1961) -- How to bore a blast hole (1963-1965) -- No way home (1965-1966) -- The price of truth (1966) -- Hell's gate (1966-1968) -- Inferno (1968-1969) -- The art of war (1969-1972) -- Endgame (August 6-September 10, 1972) -- Epilogue -- Final thoughts -- Appendix 1: A foul wind in the Department of Medicine -- Appendix 2: A rightist pawn attacks the Party.

Publishers: New York : Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Notes: Includes index.

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DDC: 951.05

MMS ID: 991024148690802626