The Resource Swimming to freedom : my escape from China and the Cultural Revolution : an untold story, Kent Wong
Swimming to freedom : my escape from China and the Cultural Revolution : an untold story, Kent Wong
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The item Swimming to freedom : my escape from China and the Cultural Revolution : an untold story, Kent Wong represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS).
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- Summary
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- A Chinese expatriate tells his story of escaping the hardship and repression of Mao's Cultural Revolution by joining the dissident underground, swimming miles across open water to Hong Kong, and eventually moving to the United States as a refugee
- When Wong was a boy his father, a 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. This is his memoir of a childhood amid revolutionary times, where boyish adventures and school days mixed with dire poverty and political persecution. Mao's China was dangerous and unstable ; the Cultural Revolution closed schools, plunged the country into chaos, and scattered Wong and his sisters to disparate villages where they struggled to eke out a bare existence. As the son of a "capitalist rightist" he had no future in China. He became one of an estimated half million "Freedom Swimmers" who swam across miles of open water to Hong Kong, risking their lives for a better future. -- adapted from jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 306 pages
- Contents
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- Prologue : "It's your time to fly away"
- Hong Kong is not China, and we are Chinese
- Chasing sparrows
- Hunger
- Red versus black
- The big link-up
- "No noble men"
- Rooftop underground
- The calm before the storm
- A call from heaven
- The endless sea
- Life and death in heaven's hands
- Life is a stream of water
- "Hey, Hong Kong! I'm back!"
- Epilogue : So much has changed, yet much remains the same
- Isbn
- 9781419751509
- Label
- Swimming to freedom : my escape from China and the Cultural Revolution : an untold story
- Title
- Swimming to freedom
- Title remainder
- my escape from China and the Cultural Revolution : an untold story
- Statement of responsibility
- Kent Wong
- Subject
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- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Children
- trueChildren -- China -- Biography
- China
- trueChina -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
- trueChina -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Personal narratives
- China -- Hong Kong
- trueChina -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- trueChinese Americans
- Chinese Americans
- trueChinese Americans -- Biography
- trueCommunism -- China
- trueEscapes
- trueGrowing up
- History
- trueHong Kong -- History -- 20th century
- Personal narratives
- truePolitical persecution
- truePoverty
- trueRefugees
- Refugees
- Refugees -- China -- Biography
- Refugees -- China | Hong Kong -- Biography
- trueRefugees -- United States -- Biography
- trueSwimmers
- trueTeenage refugees
- United States
- Wong, Kent -- Childhood and youth
- trueSwimming
- 1966-1976
- Autobiographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- A Chinese expatriate tells his story of escaping the hardship and repression of Mao's Cultural Revolution by joining the dissident underground, swimming miles across open water to Hong Kong, and eventually moving to the United States as a refugee
- When Wong was a boy his father, a 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. This is his memoir of a childhood amid revolutionary times, where boyish adventures and school days mixed with dire poverty and political persecution. Mao's China was dangerous and unstable ; the Cultural Revolution closed schools, plunged the country into chaos, and scattered Wong and his sisters to disparate villages where they struggled to eke out a bare existence. As the son of a "capitalist rightist" he had no future in China. He became one of an estimated half million "Freedom Swimmers" who swam across miles of open water to Hong Kong, risking their lives for a better future. -- adapted from jacket
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10962842
- Cataloging source
- XYZ
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wong, Kent
- Dewey number
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- 951.05092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- DS778.7
- LC item number
- .W66 2021
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Wong, Kent
- China
- Children
- Refugees
- Refugees
- Refugees
- Chinese Americans
- Children
- Chinese Americans
- Refugees
- China
- China
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- my escape from China and the Cultural Revolution: an untold story
- Label
- Swimming to freedom : my escape from China and the Cultural Revolution : an untold story, Kent Wong
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue : "It's your time to fly away" -- Hong Kong is not China, and we are Chinese -- Chasing sparrows -- Hunger -- Red versus black -- The big link-up -- "No noble men" -- Rooftop underground -- The calm before the storm -- A call from heaven -- The endless sea -- Life and death in heaven's hands -- Life is a stream of water -- "Hey, Hong Kong! I'm back!" -- Epilogue : So much has changed, yet much remains the same
- Control code
- on1249442483
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 306 pages
- Isbn
- 9781419751509
- Lccn
- 2020944982
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1249442483
- Label
- Swimming to freedom : my escape from China and the Cultural Revolution : an untold story, Kent Wong
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue : "It's your time to fly away" -- Hong Kong is not China, and we are Chinese -- Chasing sparrows -- Hunger -- Red versus black -- The big link-up -- "No noble men" -- Rooftop underground -- The calm before the storm -- A call from heaven -- The endless sea -- Life and death in heaven's hands -- Life is a stream of water -- "Hey, Hong Kong! I'm back!" -- Epilogue : So much has changed, yet much remains the same
- Control code
- on1249442483
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 306 pages
- Isbn
- 9781419751509
- Lccn
- 2020944982
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1249442483
Subject
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Children
- trueChildren -- China -- Biography
- China
- trueChina -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
- trueChina -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Personal narratives
- China -- Hong Kong
- trueChina -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- trueChinese Americans
- Chinese Americans
- trueChinese Americans -- Biography
- trueCommunism -- China
- trueEscapes
- trueGrowing up
- History
- trueHong Kong -- History -- 20th century
- Personal narratives
- truePolitical persecution
- truePoverty
- trueRefugees
- Refugees
- Refugees -- China -- Biography
- Refugees -- China | Hong Kong -- Biography
- trueRefugees -- United States -- Biography
- trueSwimmers
- trueTeenage refugees
- United States
- Wong, Kent -- Childhood and youth
- trueSwimming
- 1966-1976
- Autobiographies
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