Meihong xu biography of albert
Xu had grown up in rural Jiangsu during Mao's Cultural Revolution () and learned the harsh realities of life firsthand....
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By Aidan Li Ping Greer
- “Daughter of China: The True Story of Forbidden Love in Modern China”
- By Meihong Xu and Larry Engelmann
- Paperback, 378 pages
- Published 1999 by Headline Book Publishing
“Are there spies among us?”
It is not uncommon to overhear Hopkins-Nanjing Center (HNC) students and professors alike joke about being monitored by the Chinese government while on the HNC campus of Nanjing University.
Xu's series of five regulated verses devoted to Xue Susu (Ko, Teachers ), courtesan and painter of the late Ming, offers an example of her poetic and.
In 1988, the answer to that question would have been simple: yes. In that year, and most likely since HNC’s conception in 1986, not only were incoming and outgoing letters screened, telephones tapped and members of the housekeeping and administrative staff required to report to the Ministry of State Security, but a member of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Second Bureau (the intelligence bureau) was a student.
Her name was Xu Meihong.
Published in 1999, Xu’s autobiography, “Daughter of China”, co-written with her ex-husband