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"The prison memoirs of Yang Xiguang, a high school student, who was arrested during the Cultural Revolution for penning a political essay. He spent the next ten years in a succession of Chinese gulags, and relates here the poignant stories of his cellmates - activists, intellectuals, ""rightists"", thieves, and madmen - as well as his own intellectual and spiritual journey."

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Lively, funny, sad, thought-provoking. It is not principally about politics, but people--those who crowded with Yang into dark cells in the 1970s. From murderers to capitalists to Christians, he gives us a glimpse of the 'little people' of China, their ways and their fates. --South China Morning Post Yang Xiguang depicts these Captive Spirits with all the stolid humor of a Solzhenitsyn and all the social searching of a Djilas. Yang's tales of fellow prisoners, who survive hunger, harassment, failed escapes, and state-organized murder, are enough to capture any reader's heart. These are free spirits. --Lynn T. White III, Princeton University

Lively, funny, sad, thought-provoking. It is not principally about politics, but people--those who crowded with Yang into dark cells in the 1970s. From murderers to capitalists to Christians, he gives us a glimpse of the 'little people' of China, their ways and their fates. --South China Morning Post<br> Yang Xiguang depicts these Captive Spirits with all the stolid humor of a Solzhenitsyn and all the social searching of a Djilas. Yang's tales of fellow prisoners, who survive hunger, harassment, failed escapes, and state-organized murder, are enough to capture any reader's heart. These are free spirits. --Lynn T. White III, Princeton University<br>

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