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Swimming to freedom : my escape from China and the cultural revolution : an untold story Cover Image Book Book
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Swimming to freedom : my escape from China and the cultural revolution : an untold story

Wong, Kent (Anesthesiologist) (author.).

Summary: A Chinese expatriate tells his story of escaping the hardship and repression of Mao's Cultural Revolution by joining the dissident underground, swimming miles across open water to Hong Kong, and eventually moving to the United States as a refugee.

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  • ISBN: 1419751506 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9781419751509 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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  • Publisher: New York : Abrams Press, [2021.

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Formatted Contents Note: Prologue: "It's your time to fly away." -- Hong Kong is not China, and we are Chinese -- Chasing sparrows -- Hunger -- Red versus black -- The big link-up -- "No noble men" -- Rooftop underground -- The calm before the storm -- A call from heaven -- The endless sea -- Life and death in heaven's hands -- Life is a stream of water -- "Hey, Hong Kong! I'm back!" -- Epilogue: So much has changed, yet much remains the same.

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Subject: Wong, Kent Childhood and youth
China History Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 Personal narratives
Children China Biography
Refugees China Biography
Refugees China Hong Kong Biography
Refugees United States Biography
Chinese Americans Biography
Genre: Autobiographies.

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  • 4 of 4 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Martin Library Adults Wong Biography (Text) 33454005811518 2nd Floor Available -
Montrose 92-W WONG Won (Text) 37000009421733 SSQM Main Floor Available -
Bethlehem Main Library B WONG (Text) 33062009534497 Adult Biography Available -
Easton Main Library 951.05 W872s (Text) 31901004513745 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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