The Thirty-Sixth Way. A Personal Account of Imprisonment and Escape from Red China

by Lai Ying

A$17 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

London. Constable. 1970. Stock ID #166090 Translated, adapted and edited by Edward Behr and Sydney Liu. Map, upper corner front free endpaper clipped. Dustjacket significantly torn, now protected, otherwise a good copy. 'Of the thirty-six ways of avoiding disaster, running away is best' - Old Chinese proverb. The story of a young woman who escaped from China as it was coming into the Cultural Revolution. When

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