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When Kent Wong was a young boy, his father, a patriotic Chinese official in the customs office in Hong Kong, joined an insurrection at work and returned with the family to the newly established People’s Republic of China. Hailed as heroes, they settled in the southern city of Canton. But Mao’s China was dangerous and unstable, with landlords executed en-masse and millions dying of starvation during the Great Leap Forward.

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Swimming to Freedom
  • Author : Kent Wong
  • Release : 27 April 2021
  • Publisher : Abrams
  • ISBN : 9781647001865
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Total Page : 314 pages
  • Language : English
  • PDF File Size : 9,7 Mb

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