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Zha Jianying

Zha Jianying is a journalist and nonfiction writer. She is the author of two books in English, China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture and Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Dushu. She divides her time between Beijing and New York City.

China: Surviving the Camps

Of all the memoirs of the Cultural Revolution I have read, I cannot think of another one that offers, as Ji Xianlin's The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution does, such a devastatingly direct and detailed testimony on the physical and mental abuse an entire imprisoned intellectual community suffered.

January 26, 2016

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