Escape From China

Zhang Boli

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Year: 2008
• Topic: Politica e relazioni internazionali
• Print ISBN:
  9780743431613
• Subtopic: Biografie in ambito politico
• eBook ISBN:
  9780743437790

Who can forget the images, telecast worldwide, of brave Chinese students facing down tanks in Tiananmen Square as they took on their Communist government? After a two-week standoff in 1989, military forces suppressed the revolt, killing many students and issuing arrest warrants for top student leaders, including Zhang Boli. After two years as a fugitive, Zhang -- the only leader to elude capture -- knew that he must bid his beloved country, as well as his wife and baby daughter, farewell. Traveling across the frozen terrain of the former Soviet Union, where peasants rescued him, and through the deserted lands of China's precarious borders, Zhang had only his extraordinary will to propel him toward freedom. As told in Escape from China -- a work of great historical resonance -- his story will renew your faith in the human spirit.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• CONTENTS
• CHAPTER ONEESCAPE FROM BEIJING
• CHAPTER TWOTHE ROAD TO TIANANMEN SQUARE
• CHAPTER THREEA UNIVERSITY WITHOUT WALLS
• CHAPTER FOURTWENTY ONE PEOPLE WANTED
• CHAPTER FIVEHELP FROM THE POLICE
• CHAPTER SIXCROSSING THE BORDER
• CHAPTER SEVENINTERROGATED BY THE KGB
• CHAPTER EIGHTCHINA AGAIN
• CHAPTER NINEON THE BANKS OF WILD DEER RIVER
• CHAPTER TENGUNPLAY
• CHAPTER ELEVENGAMBLING WITH THE HARVEST
• CHAPTER TWELVEA FAMILY BROKEN
• CHAPTER THIRTEENA FAREWELL TO MY MOTHER
• CHAPTER FOURTEENFREE AT LAST
• EPILOGUE