Life and Death in Shanghai, Nien Cheng history Apartment Therapy

Apartment Therapy

The only survivors are a group of schoolboys

The twenty-third in a centuries-old line of idol makers struggles to reconcile with his son’s wish to study computer engineering

This book returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop

Two typists – the charming

Life and Death in Shanghai, Nien Cheng history Apartment TherapyThis is a first hand account of China's cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. All attempts to make her confess to the charges of being a British spy failed; all efforts to indoctrinate her were met by a steadfast and fearless refusal to accept the terms offered by her interrogators. When she was