Bitter winds : (Record no. 5715)

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LC control number 93015799
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Original cataloging agency DLC
Language of cataloging eng
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International Standard Book Number 0471556459 (acidfree paper)
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International Standard Book Number 9780471556459 (acid-free paper)
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International Standard Book Number 0471114251 (pbk.)
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International Standard Book Number 9780471114253 (pbk.)
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)28025575
Canceled/invalid control number (OCoLC)31013358
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Geographic area code a-cc---
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number DS777.75
Item number .W787 1994
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 951.05/092
Edition number 20
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number B
Edition number 20
090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (RLIN)
Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) DS777.75
Local cutter number (OCLC) ; Book number/undivided call number, CALL (RLIN) .W787 1994
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wu, Hongda Harry.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Bitter winds :
Remainder of title a memoir of my years in China's Gulag /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Harry Wu and Carolyn Wakeman.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. J. Wiley,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c1994.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent viii, 290 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 25 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note "A Robert L. Bernstein book."
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General note Includes index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In the powerful tradition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Bitter Winds chronicles a brave man's triumph over mindless brutality and unimaginable oppression. On April 27, 1960, Harry Wu, a senior at Beijing's Geology Institute, was arrested by Chinese authorities and, without ever being formally charged or tried, spent the next nineteen years in hellish prison labor camps. Exiled to the bitter desolation of this extensive gulag, he was transformed from a member of China's privileged intellectual elite into a pariah, a faceless cipher denied even the most basic human rights. He was subjected to grinding labor, systematic starvation, and torture, yet he refused to give up his passionate hold on life.
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. From the tough peasants and petty criminals imprisoned with him, like chicken thief Big Mouth Xing, he learned the harsh lessons of survival. Driven by incessant hunger, he became expert at scavenging for edible weeds in the barren camp fields and capturing snakes and frogs in the irrigation ditches. Reduced at one point to a walking skeleton, he took part in elaborate "food imagining" sessions with his squad mates in the barracks at night. In the crucible of the nightmarish Qinghe prison farm, he watched as, night after night, prisoners succumbed to disease and starvation to be buried in unmarked graves outside the camp walls.
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Summary, etc. Throughout this stunning chronicle are moving stories of the prisoners who became Wu's trusted friends. The gentle, lute-playing Ao, unblinking in his insistence on the dignity of humanity, serves as a beacon in the moral abyss of the camps. Handsome and virile Lu, tormented by unfulfilled longing for a woman's touch, is driven to insanity and finally suicide. Buffeted by the worst horrors of the Chinese communist tragedy, these poignant figures provide a rare, detailed portrait of the depths of human despair. Released from prison in 1979, Harry Wu was eventually allowed to leave China for the United States. But his story does not end there. Determined to expose the truth of the gulag, he returned to China in 1991 with a "60 Minutes" news crew. Posing as a U.S. businessman buying prison goods, he risked his life by smuggling a hidden camera into the camps and capturing on film, for the first time, haunting images of life behind those forbidding walls.
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Bitter Winds is an invaluable personal record of the persistent, barbaric abuses of human freedom in our time. An inspiring, gripping story of one man's indomitable will to live, it is a testimony to the extraordinary courage of the human spirit.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name China
General subdivision Politics and government
Chronological subdivision 1949-
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wu, Hongda Harry.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Political prisoners
Geographic subdivision China
Form subdivision Biography.
600 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wu, Hongda Harry,
Dates associated with a name 1937-
650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Politieke gevangenen.
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600 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wu, Hongda Harry.
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650 07 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Autobiographie.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Erlebnisbericht.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Politischer Gefangener.
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651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name China.
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648 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CHRONOLOGICAL TERM
Chronological term Geschichte 1960-1979.
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653 0# - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED
Uncontrolled term Labour camps
653 0# - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED
Uncontrolled term China
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wakeman, Carolyn.
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Relationship information Online version:
Main entry heading Wu, Hongda Harry.
Title Bitter winds.
Place, publisher, and date of publication New York : J. Wiley, c1994
Record control number (OCoLC)621824058
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a Processed by Dave Lyons, 12/12/12.
946 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC)
a Excellent condition.
946 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC)
a Library copy donated by Michel Oksenberg (K).
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    Library of Congress Classification     The Anton Library of Chinese Studies The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks 06/17/2013   DS777.75 .W787 1994 TBC00008556 06/17/2013 06/17/2013 Books "A Robert L. Bernstein book." | Includes index.