Engineering Communist China: One Man's Story

Engineering Communist China: One Man's Story

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Dan Ling, a patriotic young engineer eager to help build a new China, falls afoul of the authorities and spends 17 years as a political prisoner. Rehabilitated after Deng Xiaoping came to power, Dan returns to work with unflagging determination to help provide a good life for himself and his people after enduring prison, work camps and work farms, and the primitive lif e of the social outcast breaking new ground on the frozen northern frontier. Youli Sun is Director of American University's Beijing Program. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and did post-doctoral studies at Washington University; he is a specialist in American diplomatic history, modern Chinese history, and US-East Asian relations. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Engineering Communist China: One Man's Story,Youli Sun,Dan Ling,Algora Publishing,0875862411,1933 or 4-,1949-,Asia - China,China,History,History - General History,History: World,Lin, Dan,,Modern - General,Politics and government,Biography & Autobiography

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