![]() He did, and thus Jack was able to accept an invitation to lecture on Canadian and American campuses. ![]() But Yuan-tsung figured out a way to get in touch, right under the noses of the Red Guards, with Jack’s American brother-in-law and asked him to arrange a speaking tour for Jack. They were sent out of Beijing and consigned to a rural backwater village, cut off from all recourse to friends. Yuan-tsung went secretly to ask Zhou Enlai, the prime minister, for help. His hitmen, the Red Guards, viciously attacked Jack. ![]() It led to Mao’s last and most violent purge, the Cultural Revolution. His Great Leap Forward caused the plunge in agricultural production and the greatest famine of the twentieth century. She narrowly escaped the Anti-Rightist Purge of 1957 by marrying Jack Chen, who, because of his connections, had avoided political trouble so far. ![]() She went to Beijing and got a job in the Scenario Department of the Central Film Bureau, where she found herself in a front-row seat during China’s culture wars as Mao Zedong demanded that literature and art serve the Party, while writers wanted culture to be distinguishable from propaganda. ![]() From the time she was a girl, Yuan-tsung Chen had had a literary dream, and in 1950 she embarked on a literary career, a journey filled with thrilling and dangerous adventures. ![]()
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