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SPIRIT UNDER SIEGE
WITNESSING HISTORY: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom
by Jennifer Zeng (Soho)
For some memoir writers, an innate sense of story transforms an ordinary life into dazzling allegory. For others, an extraordinary life is the root and cause of the chronicle. Then there's Jennifer Zeng. Perhaps for those who survive exceptional circumstances, details become commonplace. Perhaps solidarity instructs her, one among thousands persecuted, in humility. Either way, in Witnessing History, Zeng provides a rare first-person record...