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930409s1994 nyua 001 0aeng |
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
93015799 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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DLC |
Language of cataloging |
eng |
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DLC |
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0471556459 (acidfree paper) |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780471556459 (acid-free paper) |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0471114251 (pbk.) |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780471114253 (pbk.) |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
(OCoLC)28025575 |
Canceled/invalid control number |
(OCoLC)31013358 |
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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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." |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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. |
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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. |
Source of heading or term |
gtt |
600 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Wu, Hongda Harry. |
Source of heading or term |
swd |
650 07 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Autobiographie. |
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swd |
650 07 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Erlebnisbericht. |
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swd |
650 07 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Politischer Gefangener. |
Source of heading or term |
swd |
651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
Geographic name |
China. |
Source of heading or term |
swd |
648 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CHRONOLOGICAL TERM |
Chronological term |
Geschichte 1960-1979. |
Source of heading or term |
swd |
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 |
946 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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Processed by Dave Lyons, 12/12/12. |
946 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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Excellent condition. |
946 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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Library copy donated by Michel Oksenberg (K). |
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