No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison by Xu Hongci

No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison

Xu Hongci with Erling Hoh (Translator)

336 pages paperback 2016

10 editions

nonfiction history memoir informative sad slow-paced
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"A masterpiece." --The Washington Post"It was impossible. All of China was a prison in those days."Mao Zedong's labor reform camps, known as the laogai, were notoriously brutal. Modeled on the Soviet Gulag, they subjected their inmates to backbrea...

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