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During China's Cultural Revolution, Nien Cheng, a fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai, was accused of being a British spy and locked up in solitary confinement for 6 years. When she was finally released - to face years of further harassment and intimidation - she learned that over-zealous Red Guards had beaten her daughter to death. This extraordinary book is the story of her struggle to survive against all the odds, defying her brutal interrogators and steadfastly maintaining her innocence.