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"Well before the advent of the democracy movement in Beijing, [Lord] began recording [Chinese intellectuals'] uncensored life stories. Back in the U.S. after the crackdown, she spliced them together with recollections drawn from her own Chinese roots. The result is a vivid and startling mosaic of the political struggles that foreshadowed the Tiananmen Square uprising....Lord's most indelible portraits involve the turbulent decade of the Cultural Revolution."Lord, Bette Bao is the author of 'Legacies A Chinese Mosaic' with ISBN 9780449906200 and ISBN 0449906205.
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