Dimensions
168 x 241 x 38mm
Kang Zhengguo paints an intimate picture of everyday life and Communist control from the first days of 'Liberation' in 1949 through to the Tiananmen Square protests and the aftermath. The son of a professional family, free-spirited Kang is drawn to literature, and in Mao's China, this innocent passion exposes him at the age of 20 to expulsion from university and a four-year-long term of hard labour in Xian's Number Two Brickyard. So begins Kang's long stay in the prison-camp system. Eight years later he finally breaks free from the Chinese gulag. But even after being rehabilitated following Mao's death, Kang still finds himself subject to the recurring nightmare of party authority. 'Confessions' is a revealing story of human resilience and of warmth and humour in the face of cruelty.
