num_pages: 290
description: A searing eyewitness account of what life was like in the prison camps of China during the 1960s and 1970s--through the rise of the Cultural Revolution and the Red Brigade, the death of Mao to the struggles of post-Maoist China. The author exposes the Chinese practice of exporting forced labor goods illegally into the U.S. Due to his appearance on ``Sixty Minutes'' and a cover story in Newsweek, Harry Wu was invited to speak before Congress resulting in a continuing investigation regarding his findings.
language: English
title: Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag
titlecomplete: Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag
genres: Memoir, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Asian Literature, Asia, Chinese Literature, Biography Memoir, Biography, History, China
ratings_count: 250
publisher: Wiley