During mid 90's when I was working in New York, one day I took my kids to Barnes and Noble to buy some textbook for them.  Browsing at the bookstore, I found the book "Life and Death in Shanghai" and I bought it.  Perhaps due to the reasons that I'd already read the translation edition in Taiwan, and I didn't have much spare time then, I failed to finish reading the book.  Later when I heard my daughter wanted to major English and Economics in college, so I gave the book to her.

The other day a friend of mine e-mailed me a piece of reportage about a brief biography of the author, Ms. Nien Cheng(鄭念), especially about her remarkable endurance throughout Cultural Revolution.  I would like to share it with you at: 

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MjM5MDAxNzA2NA==&mid=2654883291&idx=1&sn=610b256e0ff26140d5cfb597a9190857&chksm=bd81de9c8af6578ae675742209f222ecca33a659f88f3b12030725863596fe397d2acec52cd2&mpshare=1&scene=1&srcid=1103vF1atP2GypUnKEAmw5vg#rd

P.S.  To a certain extent, Cultural Revolution had brought indelible pains to some individual people, though the movement did have its positive function to China as a whole.  Thanks to Heaven, CCP had already announced China will never zheteng(折騰) again.  Maybe, like Ms. Cheng said herself, we should let the past rest.