Though not long, Er Tai Gao’s In Search of My Homeland is a substantial contribution to the literature about prison camps in China, a body of work still small compared to that about the Nazi and Soviet camps. In early 1957, during the short-lived “Hundred Flowers” movement of intellectual liberalization, the author, then a brash twenty-two-year-old artist, publis (...)
March 12, 2010
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Surviving Somehow
In Search of My HomelandA Memoir of a Chinese Labor CampEr Tai GaoEcco, $24.99, 272 pp.
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