Award-winning author Alfred Kazin reflects on the experiences he had while growing up in the Jewish neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn, and discusses how those experiences influenced his writing.
Traces the life of the brave Chinese woman who described her years of imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution in her book, "Life and Death in Shanghai.".
A biography of the Chinese woman who, arrested during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, spent more than six years in solitary confinement and, despite severe punishment, refused to indict herself as a traitor.
