A diary written in a Chinese labour reform camp in 1960, where one third of the inmates died. The author, a survivor, considers the experience to be his "bodhi tree" - in Buddhist terms "the place of enlightenment". His plea is that the world can learn from the past.
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A diary written in a Chinese labour reform camp in 1960, where one third of the inmates died. The author, a survivor, considers the experience to be his "bodhi tree" - in Buddhist terms "the place of enlightenment". His plea is that the world can learn from the past.
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Add this copy of My Bodhi Tree to cart. $9.95, very good condition, Sold by Sessions Book Sales rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Birmingham, AL, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Secker & Warburg.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Flight from Communist China 226 pages. "Sequel to the bestselling Grass Soup, My Bodhi Tree continues Zhang Xianliang's recall, through annotation of his own prison diaries, of his twenty-two years of captiviatyi. Here he covers the lasat months of 1960; the start of the devastating famine that came afater Mao' Great Leap Forward, a famine in which some thirty million Chinese died of starvation."
