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Nien Cheng

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Reeve Lindbergh

Garrison Keillor

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Joycelyn Elders

Michael Feinstein

George McGovern

Barack Obama

Anthony Bourdain

Karen Armstrong

Denny Mclain

George Takei

Cory Booker

Barbara Brown Taylor

David Brooks

Ali MacGraw

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Nien Cheng was born into a well-to-do Chinese family in 1915.  Her family was able to give her a college education, including post-graduate work at the London School of economics.  That's where she met her future husband. But the time she spent in Great Britain may have been a time bomb of sorts. In 1966, at the age of 51, Nien Cheng, by then a widow, was arrested and accused by the Chinese Communist government of being a Britiah spy. For nearly seven years Nien Cheng was imprisoned and sometimes tortured.  After her eventual release, she came to the United States.  

Nien Cheng was born into a well-to-do Chinese family in 1915.  Her family was able to give her a college education, including post-graduate work at the London School of economics.  That's where she met her future husband. But the time she spent in Great Britain may have been a time bomb of sorts. In 1966, at the age of 51, Nien Cheng, by then a widow, was arrested and accused by the Chinese Communist government of being a Britiah spy. For nearly seven years Nien Cheng was imprisoned and sometimes tortured.  After her eventual release, she came to the United States.

Nien Cheng - Life and Death in Shanghai - 02/23/89 by westminsterforum

Nien Cheng - Life and Death in Shanghai - 02/23/89