Contents: Chronology of Chinese history: 1839-1950 -- Biographical notes -- Chiang K'ai-shek -- Mao Tse-tung -- Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi -- Sun Yat-sen -- Michael Borodin -- Feng Yu-hsiang -- Chang Tso-Lin -- Chang Hsueh-liang -- Chou En-lai -- Lin Piao.

Contents: 1. The Earliest Onslaught -- 2. Years of the Terror -- 3. Chinese Youth Resists -- 4. Chinese Laity Resists -- 5. Chinese Laity Grows in Grace -- 6. Chinese Priests Go Underground -- 7. The "Independent Catholic Church" -- 8. The Suffering Sisters of China -- 9. Nuns as "Murderers" -- 10. The Crime of Being An American -- 11. 3,000 Witnesses against the Reds -- 12. The Meaning of "House Arrest" -- 13. Inside Chinese Prisons -- 14. Across the Border -- 15. The Woman the Reds Hate the Most -- 16. And for the Future-? -- Index

"Aiping Mu was born to parents prominent in the Communist hierarchy - her father was Political Commissar for the Beijing region and her mother ran one of the city's universities - and in her early years lived the pampered life of the Party elite: luxury housing, guards, servants and private schooling. Both parents were considered intellectuals within the Party and from the start experienced the factional in-fighting and periodic purges which culminated decades later in the Cultural Revolution and the break-up of the family. Aiping herself was one of the first Red Guards before being denounced as a bourgeois intellectual and exiled to a remote province."--OCLC recd.