Simplified Chinese

昨夜雨骤风狂

Harry Wu, author of Laogai: The Chinese Gulag (1992), Bitter Winds (1994), and Troublemaker (1996), presents his first-ever Chinese language book, an autobiography that spans his entire life, including his controversial imprisonment in 1995. According to Wu, during his 19 years in China’s Laogai, “I went through an era of cultural self-destruction, an era when humanity disappeared. This was a time when lies and rumors were regarded as truth.”

从诗人到囚徒

        尚建国是中国一个诗人、作家,曾是深圳海天出版社文艺编辑。1993年被控犯经济罪入狱,他那年才三十多岁。在牢狱九年的时间里,他将所见所思诉诸于笔,对法院、监狱里的官僚腐败作风和犯人的非人待遇,都有痛苦的体会及细腻的描写,为外界了解中国目前司法及监狱系统的真实情况揭开一扇窗口。作者目前居中国大陆。

红尘白浪

Ye Shaohua was accused of “collaborating with overseas enemies” after expressing his wish to travel overseas and unite with family members in a letter sent to a relative in the U.S. Ye was labeled a “counterrevolutionary” and sentenced to 15 years in the Laogai. In this book, Ye describes the cruel treatment he endured in Laogai camps in Hainan and Hubei provinces, treatment which became worse after his three failed attempts at escape.

苦难的历程

        文彻赫恩是满清望族的后裔,曾是热血革命青年,参加过1947的学生运动,49年参加解放军南下,57年毕业于上海戏剧学院,同年被划为极右分子,58年被逮捕入狱,78年被平反。文彻赫恩曾执导和演出过多部歌剧、话剧和电影,才华横溢,可惜生不逢时,从26岁起共失去二十年的人身自由,其中经历了饥饿、疾病及虐待的摧残,身心俱创。80年代,他带着受伤的心离开中国,移居美国至今。

沧桑岁月

Chen Wenli grew up in a well-to-do, Westernized family. After graduating from high school in the 1950s, he joined the PLA and performed executions. During the Cultural Revolution, Chen was sentenced to 15 years for listening to foreign radio broadcasts. In jail, he was forced to make false confessions to avoid execution.

永远的北大荒

Huang Zhan was arrested after the Communists took power in 1949 and sentenced to 15 years in the Laogai in the remote northeast area of Beidahuang. During his time there, he escaped death numerous times - narrowly escaping a death sentence, living through a terrible famine, and surviving blizzards and encounters with wild animals. Huang was not truly freed until 1979.

作者黄湛出生于云南一个显赫的家族,父亲是辛亥革命功臣。中共建政后,他兄弟几个都被劳改,有的惨死在劳改营裡。黄湛被判15年并送北大荒劳 改。刑满后被迫留场就业,后又下放农村,前后30年。作者在最幽暗的漫漫长夜之中,也没有被邪恶战胜,始终保持着作为人的基本良知,犹如暗夜中的一星荧光。