She was eventually paroled under the pretense that her attitude had shown improvement. Cheng refused to provide a false confession, and was tortured as a result. During her confinement, she was pressured to make a false confession that she was a spy for "the imperialists" because for many years after the death of her husband she had continued to work as a senior partner for Shell in Shanghai. Written in exile in the United States, it tells the story of Cheng's arrest during the first days of the Cultural Revolution, her more than six years' confinement, release, persecution, efforts to leave China, and early life in exile.Ĭheng was arrested in late 1966 after the Red Guards looted her home. Life and Death in Shanghai is an autobiography published in November 1987 by Yao Nien-Yuan under the pen name Nien Cheng.
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