Escape from China
Subtitle: the long journey from Tiananmen to freedom
By: Zhang Boli ; translated from the Chinese by Kwee Kian Low.
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Zhang, Boli.; Dissenters -- China -- Biography.; Chinese -- United States -- Biography.; China -- History -- Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 -- Personal narratives.
Genres: Biography.; Personal narratives.
Other titles: long journey from Tiananmen to freedom
Description: "Who can forget the searing images, telecast around the world, of the brave Chinese students facing the tanks that rolled toward them in Tiananmen Square as they took on their Communist government? After a two week standoff, the military forces, charged in and brutally suppressed the revolt, killing many students and issuing a warrant for the arrest of all responsible for the insurgence.".

"As one of the top student leaders in the demonstrations at Tiananmen Square, Zhang Boli became even more famous as he managed to evade a ruthless nationwide police manhunt. After two years as a fugitive, he was the only leader who had not been accounted for. Among the twenty-one students placed on the government's most wanted list, Zhang knew that he would never again be able to live openly in China and that he must bid his beloved country - as well as his wife and baby daughter - farewell.

In Escape from China, Zhang Boli tells the fascinating, inspirational story of how he avoided capture and surpassed overwhelming obstacles in his struggle to survive and ultimately find freedom in the West.".

"Traveling across the frozen terrain of the former Soviet Union, where Russian peasants rescued him, and finding his way through the deserted lands of China's precarious borders, Zhang had little but his extraordinary will to propel him, subsisting for months at a time on the flesh of wild animals. In the course of his long ordeal, he loses his love, finding God and, eventually, freedom."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Escape from Beijing; title: The road to Tiananmen Square; title: A university without walls; title: Twenty-one people wanted; title: Help from the police; title: Crossing the border; title: Interrogated by the KGB; title: China again; title: On the banks of Wild Deer River; title: Gunplay; title: Gambling with the harvest; title: A family broken; title: A farewell to my mother; title: Free at last; title: Epilogue.