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On April 27, 1960, Harry Wu, a student at the Geology Institute of Beijing, was arrested by Chinese authorities and, without being taken to trial or even being formally accused, was sent to a forced labor camp. For almost 20 years he was imprisoned in various camps, denied all of his rights, and forced to work to exhaustion. Wu went from being part of the country's intellectual elite to being a pariah, imprisoned with common criminals and enduring hunger, suffering brutal torture, and watching many of his companions die. Wu was liberated in 1979 and several years later was able to exile himself in the United States. This is the story of his life from his years as a university studentto his political rehabilitation in the mid-1980s, of the punishments he had to endure and of his struggle to conserve his dignity. But it is also a moving testimony of the terror provoked by one of the bloodiest dictatorships of the 20th century and of the injustice that many others had to endure. El 27 de abril de 1960, Harry Wu, un estudiante del Instituto de Geologia de Pekin, fue arrestado por las autoridades chinas y sin ser juzgado o acusado formalmente fue enviado a un campo de trabajo. Durante casi 20 anos estuvo encerrado en distintos campos, fue privado de todos sus derechos y obligado a trabajar hasta la extenuacion. De miembro de la elite intelectual del pais paso a ser un paria, recluido junto a delincuentes comunes, pasando hambre, sufriendo torturas y viendo morir a muchos de sus companeros. Wu fue liberado en 1979 y unos anos despues conseguiria exiliarse en Estados Unidos.Este es el relato de su vida desde sus anos universitarios hasta su rehabilitacion politica a mediados de los ochenta, de las penalidades a las que tuvo que hacer frente y de su lucha por conservar su dignidad. Pero es tambien el estremecedor testimonio del terror provocado por una de las dictaduras mas sangrientas de todo el siglo XX y de la injusticia que otros muchos como el tuvieron que vivir.

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The saga of a man whom history tried and failed to break. . . . [A] remarkable book. Los Angeles Times, on the English-language edition A valuable addition to the growing literature on the worldwide problem of political prisoners. Library Journal, on the English-language edition Not since Prisoner of Mao was published in 1973 has a voice from the Chinese prisoner camps spoken out with such compelling immediacy as Harry Wu's. Wall Street Journal, on the English-language edition

Not since Prisoner of Mao was published in 1973 has a voice from the Chinese prisoner camps spoken out with such compelling immediacy as Harry Wu's. Wall Street Journal, on the English-language edition

A valuable addition to the growing literature on the worldwide problem of political prisoners. Library Journal, on the English-language edition Not since Prisoner of Mao was published in 1973 has a voice from the Chinese prisoner camps spoken out with such compelling immediacy as Harry Wu's. Wall Street Journal, on the English-language edition The saga of a man whom history tried and failed to break. . . . [A] remarkable book. Los Angeles Times, on the English-language edition

Not since Prisoner of Mao was published in 1973 has a voice from the Chinese prisoner camps spoken out with such compelling immediacy as Harry Wu's. -- Wall Street Journal , on the English-language edition

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Harry Wu is an activist for human rights in the People's Republic of China. Currently residing in the United States, he spent 19 years of his life in Chinese labor camps.

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