Thursday, September 29, 2011
Celebrate the Freedom to Read: LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI
Wang-Ying Glasgow celebratesLIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI, by Nien Cheng
This was a banned book in China and I am sure this book would never get published in the first place. I read it in 1989, when I first came to America. I couldn’t put it down. I wanted to meet this author. Her story was one of the many sad stories of the injustice and inhumanities done to so many Chinese during the Cultural Revolution!
I remember this was one of the first books I read and truly felt how free it is to be in America and how fortunate I am to be able to read it because I knew English.
Wang-Ying Glasgow, Central Library
Labels: Banned Books Week
[permalink] posted by Memphis Reads : 3:00 PM
