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Author Wong, Kent, author.

Title Swimming to freedom : my escape from China and the Culural Revolution : an untold story / Kent Wong.

Publication Info. New York : Abrams Press, [2021]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2067430~S1
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 95th Street Adult Biography  BIO WONG    AVAILABLE
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Description 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary A Chinese expatriate tells his story of escaping the hardship and repression of Mao's Cultural Revolution by joining the dissident underground, swimming miles across open water to Hong Kong, and eventually moving to the United States as a refugee.
Subject Wong, Kent -- Childhood and youth.
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Personal narratives.
Children -- China -- Biography.
Refugees -- China -- Biography.
Refugees -- China -- Hong Kong -- Biography.
Refugees -- United States -- Biography.
Chinese Americans -- Biography.
Genre Autobiographies.
ISBN 9781419751509 hc.
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