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By Penny Peng
Homesick for her native China,
the author
returned in 1957 after a decade
in the United
States (where she acquired her
nickname).
To modernize the country, Mao's
regime was
seeking educated Chinese expatriates
to come
home. Penny met and married Yao
Tung-ping,
who had been a professor of metallurgy
in
Europe. Now revered as one of
the 50 greatest
figures of the new China for
his pioneering
work in the nation's rocketry
program, in
1968 Yao's education and Western
ties cast
suspicion on him during the Cultural
Revolution.
A mob of Red Guards beat him
to death, and
his widow fought the regime for
many years
to clear his name and punish
the killers.
This gripping story, now available
in English,
has sold over 10,000 copies in
China. |
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