This is a unique memoir of modern China, a story of courage, of despair and of hope. Her story is inspiring and eye-opening, an evocative and highly-readable account of how the huge events in China's modern history impacted on ordinary people.
Margaret Sun was born in Shanghai in 1935 and obtained a job in the late 1970s teaching English at Xinjiang University. She is now retired and lives in Urumqi. She has two children and two grandchildren.
