{"product_id":"confessions-kang-zhengguo-9780393332001","title":"Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis gripping and poignant memoir (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e) draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of Liberation in 1949 through the post-Mao era. The son of a professional family, Kang Zhengguo is a free spirit, drawn to literature. In Mao's China, these innocuous circumstances expose him at age twenty to a fierce struggle session, expulsion from university, and a four-year term of hard labor. So begins his long stay in the prison-camp system. He finally escapes the Chinese gulag by forfeiting his identity: at age twenty-eight he is adopted by an aging bachelor in a peasant village, which enables him to start a new life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kang Zhengguo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393332004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393332001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 1.40d","brand":"Kang Zhengguo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980923961599,"sku":"9780393332001","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fe30f178-436f-40f3-acc6-b9ce7525efac.jpg?v=1683252684","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/confessions-kang-zhengguo-9780393332001","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}