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Book Reviews the New China After 1949, but Were Soon Physical Descriptions Are Vivid, and the Dia - Either Brainwashed Into Political Slavery Or Logue Direct Book Reviews the New China after 1949, but were soon physical descriptions are vivid, and the dia - either brainwashed into political slavery or logue direct . This simplicity adds to the persecuted, and his daughter recounts how impact of the book . The reader lives , page A Tear and a Feather the sons and daughters of these intellectu - by page , Yimao’s heart-break of family sep - als lost their childhood in the Cultural Revo - arations, her defiance of brutal bullying, her A review of: lution and then, as teenagers, were solace in friendship, her horror on finding banished to remote and primitive villages the mother of her best friend hanging dead Feather in the Storm “to learn from the poor and lower-middle from the branches of a tree, her trance-like Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann peasants .” experience when that friend’s mother Pantheon Books, 2006 These memoirs have much to tell us of speaks tenderly to her from beyond the 336 pages, $25.00 suffering under the oppressive rule of grave, and her surprise at compassion from China’s Communist Party, but they are also unexpected quarters . A Single Tear testaments to the resilience of the human Having, as a British diplomat, read many Ningkun Wu and Yikai Li spirit under oppression when sustained by authentic but unpublished travelers’ tales, I 1993, Back Bay Books love, courage and faith. Neither Wu Ningkun can vouch that the experiences recounted (reprint edition, 1994) nor his daughter Emily ever preaches to us, by Yimao were the very stuff of life for edu - 384 pages , $19.99 and we learn from them all the better for cated youth in those years. that. Fine books on their own, they gain Ningkun was already two years into his BY ROGER GARSIDE from being read together. doctoral thesis on T.S. Eliot at the Univer - Ningkun chose for his daughter the sity of Chicago when China entered the war name Yimao (“One Feather”) while he was in Korea in 1950 . Politically innocent, he in a labor camp . Long years of being tossed readily accepted an appeal to abandon his in a storm awaited this feather. Besides her thesis and take up a professorship of Eng - name, Ningkun would in time impart to lish literature at Yenching University in Bei - Yimao his love of Chinese classical poetry , jing. He was a brilliant and dedicated which would sustain her when she in turn teacher and translator of English classics , was “sent down” to learn from illiterate but his political innocence persisted, with peasants, and his gift for storytelling, which the result that when the Communist Party would enable her , with the expert help of assured intellectuals that they could speak Larry Engelmann, to give us this gripping out in the Hundred Flowers Movement with - Every evening through the autumn of 1965, book . Yimao first set eyes on her father on out fear of retribution, he believed it, and a seven -year -old Chinese girl hid under her her third birthday, when he was still a politi - was sentenced to reform through labor . little brother’s crib to listen to her father tell cal prisoner . At the end of their brief meet - By then he had married a Roman stories to her brothers . She hid because this ing he told her , “You are a determined young Catholic from the port city of Tianjin, who was a privilege reserved for sons and denied lady, like your Mama. Someday, this little had borne him a son and was carrying the to daughters . Her father was a superb story - Phoenix will sing at heaven’s gate!” future Yimao in her womb. This was a fam - teller and held his little audience spellbound Feather in the Storm is Yimao’s account ily bound together by their love for each with traditional Chinese tales and Western of what childhood and youth were like for other, their courage and their faith in life . classics he had read as a student in Amer - the child of a “Rightist .” She was born into Indeed , these characteristics saved the ica. One evening, when the boys had gone to the Great Leap Forward, a time of mass lives of Ningkun and their daughter . Without bed, and the girl was still hiding there , the starvation. From the age of eight, during the the loyalty of his wife, Li Yikai, and her per - genial storyteller sat talking to himself in a Cultural Revolution , she was bullied and sistent and daring interventions on his very different tone : “It’s not over. It’s coming ostracized , and witnessed the brutal mal - behalf, Ningkun would have died from star - . I see it . .” A victim of the Anti-Rightist treatment of her parents , their friends and vation-induced sickness while in captivity. campaign of 1957 –58 , he sensed that new colleagues . At 11, she and her brothers Likewise , only her parents’ loving attention trouble was brewing, for himself and others. were separated from their parents for over saved Yimao when she was denied proper Within a year that trouble would burst out, in a year. When the family was reunited, it was medical treatment because of her father’s the form of the Cultural Revolution. to live for four years among peasants in political history. Nearly 30 years later he would publish rural squalor . At 1 7, she was parted from The family’s love and courage were an account of the suffering inflicted on him, her family again, when she was sent to a underpinned by a faith in life. Ningkun was his wife and children , from 1954 to 1979 . mountain village. not a religious man, and his faith owed Now his daughter has written her part of The Wu-Engelmann partnership tells the much to his reading of Chinese literature, the family’s story. story through the eyes of Yimao (who chose both classical and modern, and the English- Each book stands very well on its own, a the name Emily when she moved to the language canon. He found sustenance par - memorial to the trials of its author ’s gener - U.S.) as she was at the time, not embel - ticularly in Hamlet : the “Prince of Denmark” ation . The father tells the fate of those lished by sophisticated hindsight. The was his alter ego . And in the still of the patriotic intellectuals who wanted to build storyline and style are kept simple; the night, on the eve of being sentenced to 7 labor reform, he remembered the passion - of a short, stocky bull-dog of a man who human . A purpose has been served that 0 0 ate voice of Dylan Thomas reading at the turned out to be Wu Ningkun. I soon discov - gives meaning to life: Ningkun and Yikai 2 , University of Chicago : ered that he had developed what the editor kept faith with each other and with their 1 . O of this journal has called “a capacity to find highest values ; strapped to a wheel , they N Twisting on racks when sinews give way, hilarity in the grotesque absurdity at the did not break, and Yimao grew up to sing at Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not base of what ruined so many lives.” 1 heaven’s gate. Through these lives , light break; That evening Ningkun told me he had has shined in the darkness, and the dark - M U And death shall have no dominion. invented the formula “I came, I suffered, I ness has not overcome it. R O survived” to describe his experience in F S Beside a lake in the Great Northern communist China. But was it suffering in NOTE T H G Wilderness, he and a fellow prisoner read vain? He believed that to be worthy of the 1. Stacy Mosher, “Patriot’s Cultural Revelation,” I to each other from the novels of Shen Con - suffering and survival, he must render an Eastern Express, July 22, 1994. R A N gwen, whose “transparent and candlelit” account of it that would contribute to a bet - I H voice, tender rhythm and music, made ter understanding of men and history. C them forget their sorrows. Du Fu had never Richard and I encouraged him in this The Politics of Insanity been Ningkun’s favorite poet, but now he resolve. Two years later, when I saw him 7 9 found that “a great poem of Du Fu enno - again in Beijing, he was finding it impossi - A review of China’s Psychiatric Inquisition: bles us with the tragic grandeur of life .” His ble to write in the “sterile climate” of Dissent, Psychiatry and the Law S first encounter with an assembly of several China. It was only in 1991, when he and in Post-1949 China E R U hundred fellow prisoners led him to recite Yikai followed their children into exile in the Robin Munro T A in silence the words of T. S. Eliot in The U.S., that he could resume the project . London: Wildy, Simmonds & Hill, 2006 E F Waste Land : “ So many, / I had not thought The result is a book that deserves to be 366 pages, £65 R A L death had undone so many .” recognized as a classic . I know of no richer, U G Ningkun has always been averse to self- deeper or wiser account of the suffering BY JAMES D. SEYMOUR E dramatization, but his heart had been inflicted on patriotic Chinese intellectuals R roused in high school while reading how than A Single Tear , nor any more damning Patrick Henry had galvanized the Virginia account of the “mass intellectual castra - House of Burgesses to commit troops to tion” (Ningkun’s words ) perpetrated by the the fight against British rule with the cry , Communist Party of China.
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