Blood letters the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China

"Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in 1960 and executed eight years later, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. The only Chinese citizen known to have openly and steadfastly opposed communism under Mao, she rooted her dissent...

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Main Author: Lian, Xi (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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250 |a First edition. 
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264 4 |c Ã2018 
300 |a vii, 331 pages :  |b illustrations, portraits ;  |c 25 cm 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-317) and index. 
520 |a "Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in 1960 and executed eight years later, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. The only Chinese citizen known to have openly and steadfastly opposed communism under Mao, she rooted her dissent in her Christian faith--and expressed it in long, prophetic writings done in her own blood, and at times on her clothes and on cloth torn from her bedsheets."--Page [2] of cover. 
600 1 0 |a Lin, Zhao,  |d 1932-1968. 
650 0 |a Dissenters  |z China  |v Biography. 
651 0 |a China  |x History  |y 1949-1976. 
651 0 |a China  |x History  |y Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976. 
600 1 0 |a Mao, Zedong,  |d 1893-1976. 
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