A01=Zhang Boli
Author_Zhang Boli
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China
Chinese politics
Chinese revolution
communist china
Communist government
communist party in china
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escaping from Communism
escaping south Korea
hong kong
jack ma
red scare
south korea
Soviet Union
student protests
Tiananmen Square
what's it like inside china
xi jinping
Zhang
Product details
- ISBN 9780743431613
- Dimensions: 140 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 27 May 2003
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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No one can forget the scalding images of defiance and bravery that appeared on our television screens in 1989. Teeming masses of students made history in Tiananmen Square, uniting their voices in protest of China's Communist regime. Impassioned young libertarians stood their ground in front of advancing tanks, stared down the menace of hulking cannons, and withstood two weeks of mounting tension. In the end, military forces charged in and brutally suppressed the revolt, killing untold numbers of students - and ordering the arrest of all responsible for the protest. Over the next two years, Chinese police managed to account for every one of these student leaders - except one. ESCAPE FROM CHINA is a gripping first-person account of how China's most-wanted fugitive trumped overwhelming obstacles and evaded a ruthless police search for more than two years before finding freedom in the West. Travelling across the frozen terrain of the former Soviet Union, where Russian peasants rescued him, and finding his way through the deserted lands of China's precarious borders, Zhang had little but his extraordinary will to keep him moving, surviving for months at a time on wild animals.
In the course of his long ordeal, he loses his love, finds God and eventually, freedom.
Zhang Boli was a student organiser during the uprisings in Tiananmen Square. Now a priest in Los Angeles, he is a prominent figure and speaker in the Chinese-American community.
