Ebook: Swimming to Freedom: My Escape from China and the Cultural Revolution

When Kent Wong was a young boy, his father, a patriotic Chinese official in the customs office in Hong Kong, joined an insurrection at work and returned with the family to the newly established Peopleâs Republic of China. Hailed as heroes, they settled in the southern city of Canton. But Maoâs China was dangerous and unstable, with landlords executed en-masse and millions dying of starvation during the Great Leap Forward.