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Nien Cheng; wrote of prison in China’s Cultural Revolution

WASHINGTON -Nien Cheng, whose memoir “Life and Death in Shanghai’’ was widely praised as one of the most riveting accounts of the Cultural Revolution, died Monday of cardiovascular and renal disease at her home in Washington. She was 94. Full Article at Boston Globe

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    Nien Cheng, whose memoir, “Life and Death in Shanghai,” offered a harrowing account of the Cultural Revolution in China and her years of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Red Guards, died last Monday at her home in Washington. She was 94. Full Article at The New York Times

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