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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: secret listener
    sub title: an ingenue in Mao's court
  name:
    name part: Chen, Yuan-tsung
    name part: 1932-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 277 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Born in Shanghai in 1929, she came to know Zhou En-Lai-second only to Mao in importance, as a young girl while living in Chongqing, where Chiang Kai-Shek's government had relocated to, during the war against Japan. That connection to Zhou helped her save her husband's life in Cultural Revolution. After the communists took power, she obtained a job in one of the culture ministries. While there, she frequently engaged with the upper echelon of the party and was a first-hand witness to some of the purges that the regime regularly initiated. Eventually, the commissar she worked under was denounced in 1957, and she barely escaped being purged herself. Later, during the Cultural Revolution, she and her husband were purged and sent to live in a rough, poor area. She and her husband finally moved to Hong Kong, with Zhou's special permission, in 1971. A firsthand account of what life was like in the period before the revolution and in Mao's China, The Secret Listener gives a unique perspective on the era, and Chen's vantage point provides us with a new perspective on the Maoist regime, one of the most radical political experiments in modern history and a force that genuinely changed the world.
  note: Yuan-tsung Chen.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Chen, Yuan-tsung
      name part: 1932-
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Mao, Zedong
      name part: 1893-1976
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Zhou, Enlai
      name part: 1898-1976
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1949-1976
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 1949-1976
  subject:
    topic: Women authors, Chinese
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Women
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: DS779.29.C47494 A3 2022
  classification: 951.05092
  identifier: 0197573347
  identifier: 9780197573341
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210305
    record change date: 20220509173405.9
    record identifier: in00004561651