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Swimming To Freedom: My Untold Story Of Escaping The Cultural Revolution
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A Deeply Personal, Heartwrenching Memoir Of The Author'S Upbringing In Communist China During The Cultural Revolution And His Tenacious Flight To Freedom Against All Oddswhen Kent Wong Was A Young Boy, His Father, A Patriotic Chinese Official In The Customs Office In Hong Kong, Joined An Insurrection At Work And Returned With The Family To The Newly Established Peoples Republic Of China. Hailed As Heroes, They Settled In The Southern City Of Canton. But Maos China Was Dangerous And Unstable, With Landlords Executed En Masse And Millions Dying Of Starvation During The Great Leap Forward.Kent Wongs Swimming To Freedom Is A Memoir Of A Childhood Amid Revolutionary Times, Where Boyish Adventures And School Days Mixed With Dire Poverty And Political Persecution, And A Moving Story Of An Inextinguishable Yearning To Be Free. Maos Hundred Flower Campaign Ensnared Kents Father. A Decade Later The Cultural Revolution Closed Schools, Plunged The Country Into Chaos, And Scattered Kent And His Sisters To Disparate Villages Where They Struggled To Eke Out A Bare Existence. Kent Began To Realize That With Higher Education Closed To Him (As The Son Of A Capitalist Rightist), He Had No Future In China. So, When He Hooked Up With A Dissident Underground And Heard About Fellow Countrymen Braving Extraordinary Hardship To Reach Freedom By Swimming Across Miles Of Open Water To Hong Kong, He Decided To Risk His Life For A Better Future.Swimming To Freedom Is An Extraordinary Account Of A Largely Unknown Chapter In History, When An Estimated Half Million Freedom Swimmers Risked Everything To Escape Hardship And Oppression. It Is A Gripping Memoir And A Moving Testament To The Human Spirit.
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