Esther Cheo Ying

An unusual true story...she tells movingly of the brainwashing, privation and heartbreak

One girl's story from war-torn England to Revolutionary China

Born in pre-Revolutionary China and brought up in the Midlands, Esther Cheo Ying returned to China in 1949 after a traumatic childhood, convinced that there she would find the happiness and sense of belonging she longed for. Caught up in the turmoil of civil war and sympathetic to the Communist Revolution, she joined the Red Army and then stayed on to work in the new People's Republic. But despite her determination to make a new life in China could she truly be happy in a country which encouraged constant self-criticism and viewed her as a 'false foreign devil'? <br/>
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<i>Black Country to Red China</i> is an extraordinary account of life before the Cultural Revolution, but it is also a fascinating insight into one woman's struggle to come to terms with your own identity.

Black Country to Red China

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A remarkable and direct account

An unusual true story...she tells movingly of the brainwashing, privation and heartbreak

Essential reading

A remarkable and direct account

An unusual true story...she tells movingly of the brainwashing, privation and heartbreak

Essential reading

A remarkable and direct account

An unusual true story...she tells movingly of the brainwashing, privation and heartbreak

Essential reading

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