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A Comrade Lost and Found - A Beijing Memoir (Paperback)
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A Comrade Lost and Found - A Beijing Memoir (Paperback)
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List price R580
Loot Price R513
Discovery Miles 5 130
You Save R67 (12%)
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In the early 1970s, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Jan
Wong traveled from Canada to become one of only two Westerners
permitted to study at Beijing University. One day a fellow student,
Yin Luoyi, asked for help getting to the United States. Wong, then
a starry-eyed Maoist from Montreal, immediately reported her to the
authorities, and shortly thereafter Yin disappeared. Thirty-three
years later, hoping to make amends, Wong revisits the Chinese
capital to search for the person who has haunted her conscience. At
the very least, she wants to discover whether Yin survived. But
Wong finds the new Beijing bewildering. Phone numbers, addresses,
and even names change with startling frequency. In a society
determined to bury the past, Yin Luoyi will be hard to find. As she
traces her way from one former comrade to the next, Wong unearths
not only the fate of the woman she betrayed but a web that mirrors
the strange and dramatic journey of contemporary China and
rekindles all of her love for--and disillusionment with--her
ancestral land.
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