Eileen Kan
As told to Marsha Bryant

War. Rape. Slave labor. Starvation. Alone and on the run, Eileen survived them all.
       Born into stunning luxury in Manchuria, Eileen fled from one end of China to the other as fighting followed behind her. She vividly describes working as a slave in a commune and the grueling poverty of the peasants when she was exiled to the countryside. Many of her experiences are forbidden knowledge in China today.
      Her painfully honest, firsthand memoir charts China's turbulent years, from the fall of the Last Emperor to the student democracy demonstrations of 1989.