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No Wall Too High

No Wall Too High

One Man's Extraordinary Escape from Mao's Infamous Labour Camps

by Xu Hongci
Paperback
Publication Date: 08/02/2018

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The very rare, true story of resilience, courage and escape from Mao’s infamous Chinese labour camps.

It was one of the greatest prison breaks of all time, during one of the worst totalitarian tragedies of the 20th Century.

Xu Hongci was an ordinary medical student when he was incarcerated under Mao's regime and forced to spend years of his youth in some of China's most brutal labour camps. Three times he tried to escape. And three times he failed. But, determined, he eventually broke free, travelling the length of China, across the Gobi desert, and into Mongolia.

This is the extraordinary memoir of his unrelenting struggle to retain dignity, integrity and freedom; but also the untold story of what life was like for ordinary people trapped in the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.

'ONE OF THE GREATEST ESCAPE STORIES I'VE EVER READ' MAIL ON SUNDAY


ISBN:
9781846044984
9781846044984
Category:
True stories of heroism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
08-02-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
198x126x21mm
Weight:
0.23kg
Xu Hongci

It took Xu Hongci four attempts before he finally escaped the labour camps. He then travelled the length of China into Mongolia – only to be arrested and sentenced to two years in a Mongolian prison for illegally entering the country. After serving his sentence, Xu Hongci met and married a Mongolian nurse, started a family and, after Mao’s death, returned to China where he died in 2008.

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