the secret listener an ingenue in mao's court

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She and her husband finally moved to Hong Kong, with Zhou's special permission, in 1971. Later, during Cultural Revolution, she and her husband were purged and sent to live in a rough, poor area. Eventually, the commissar she worked under was denounced in 1957, and she barely escaped being purged herself. While there, she frequently engaged with the upper echelon of the party and was a first-hand witness to some of the purges that the regime regularly initiated. After the communists took power, she obtained a job in one of the culture ministries.

That connection to Zhou helped her save her husband's life in Cultural Revolution. Born in Shanghai in 1929, she came to know Zhou En-Lai-second only to Mao in importance-as a young girl while living in Chongqing, where Chiang Kai-Shek's government had relocated to, during the war against Japan. Yuan-tsung Chen, who is now 90, lived through most of it, and at certain points in close proximity to the seat of communist power. The history of China in the twentieth century is comprised of a long series of shocks: the 1911 revolution, the civil war between the communists and the nationalists, the Japanese invasion, the revolution, the various catastrophic campaigns initiated by Chairman Mao between 19, its great opening to the world under Deng, and the Tiananmen Square Massacre. A personal account of life in the orbit of Mao and Zhao En-Lai and one woman's effort to tell what it was like to be at the center of the storm.

The secret listener an ingenue in mao's court