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A Memoir of Misfortune
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A Memoir of Misfortune Hardback - 2001

by Su Xiaokang; Zhu Hong (Translator); Xiaokang Su

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A compelling memoir--both gripping and deeply personal--by one of the leaders of the democracy movement in China, who managed to escape to America with his family only to find himself faced with a tragedy more terrifying than he had ever imagined.
In the 1980s, Su Xiaokang, a young journalist, wrote the script for a six-part television series, "River Elegy," which probed so deeply into the core of Chinese beliefs and values that it galvanized the entire country in an explosion of intellectual debate. Having survived the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, he now became the focus of a massive pursuit as one of the regime's five most wanted "criminals," and was smuggled out of China, leaving behind his wife, Fu Li, and their young son. After two long years and great international pressure, the family was finally reunited in Princeton, New Jersey. For a brief time, it seemed as if the worst was behind them. But on June 4, 1993--exactly four years after Tiananmen--while the family was being driven to Niagara Falls, the car they were in sped off the road. When Su Xiaokang regained consciousness, he discovered that Fu Li was in a coma, from which she would eventually emerge unable to speak or to control her limbs.
Suddenly, the national hero who had accepted his place at the center of a political revolution was a husband and a father who had to remake an emotional world for his wife and son. Throughout his candid and extraordinarily moving memoir, we become party to this man's innermost thoughts and feelings, his guilt and fear, his moral self-questioning, his bravery and strength, as he tells the story of his wife before and after the accident, and of how his sense of love, marriage, responsibility, and the true goals of life was profoundly and forever changed.

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  • Title A Memoir of Misfortune
  • Author Su Xiaokang; Zhu Hong (Translator); Xiaokang Su
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, New York
  • Publication date 2001
  • ISBN 9780375410390 / 0375410392
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.84 x 5.33 x 1.31 in (19.91 x 13.54 x 3.33 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, Chinese - 20th century, Su, Xiaokang
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00062001
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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New York: Alfred A Knop, 2001. First US Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Ex-Library First American Edition. Hardcover Ex-Library Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Except for minimal library stamps, in Very Good Condition. Clean, otherwise unmarked book, tight and solid binding, pages in Fine Condition. A compelling memoir by a young Chinese journalist who, in the 1980s, wrote a script for a TV series that probed the depths of Chinese beliefs and values so deeply that it stirred an intellectual debate on China-he was a leader of the democratic movement in China. Then, havIng survived the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, he became one of the regime's five most wanted criminals and was smuggled out of China. After two years he was able to have his family brought to America. After four years in America, thinking the worst was behind them, a terrible car accident brought personal tragedy. An extraordinarily moving memoir. 329 pages. 7.8" x… Read more
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