The staggering story of the most influential Chinese political dissident of the Mao era, a devout Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the regime Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a Chinese poet and journalist arrested by the regime in 1960 and executed eight years later, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Alone among the victims of Mao's dictatorship, she maintained a stubborn and open opposition during the years she was imprisoned. She rooted her dissent in her Christian faith--and expressed it in long, prophetic writings done in her own blood, and at times on her clothes and on cloth torn from her bedsheets. Miraculously, Lin Zhao's prison writings survived, though they have only recently come to light. Drawing on these works and others from the years before her arrest, as well as interviews with friends, family, and classmates, Lian Xi paints an indelible portrait of courage and faith in the face of unrelenting evil.
| ISBN: | 9781541644236 |
| Publication date: | 26th April 2018 |
| Author: | Lian Xi |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Genres: |
True stories of heroism, endurance and survival Far-left political ideologies and movements Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict Christianity Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works Literary studies: poetry and poets News media and journalism |