Xu Hongci was born in a comprador family of a big capitalist in Shanghai on 1933. Enlightened by Marxist-Leninist books and the class teacher, 1948 joined the underground party in China. 195 1 year/month worked in the United Front Work Department of the Youth League Working Committee of East China Bureau, and was appreciated and reused by his superiors Huang Xinbai and Qiao Shi.

Later, Xu Hongci was beaten to the right for insisting on telling the truth and was imprisoned for 14 years. He escaped from the reform-through-labour camp four times and finally fled to outer Mongolia on 1972. This book describes in detail how Xu changed from a darling of China to a reviled rightist and even a prisoner in a labor camp, and shows readers the appalling situation of hunger and slavery in the labor camp. As the only one of China's 550,000 Rightists who can flee abroad.

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The origin of "rushing out of labor camp"

Xu Hongci died of kidney cancer at the age of 75. At this point, he has been identified as a retired cadre, but it is too late! Late justice will be greatly reduced! Xu's retirement benefits have only been enjoyed for a month! Thankfully, he has finished his 450,000-word memoir and published it in a city. The title of the memoir was published and approved as Out of the Labor Camp, which is known as China's version of The Shawshank Redemption. His son said in his eulogy, Dad! You didn't leave us a fortune, but the spiritual wealth you left is precious! We hope to be your children in the next life!

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Xu Hongci