2023-11-29
1 小时 31 分钟And my father spoke up against Mao's policies.
He was arrested, tortured, driven insane.
And my mother was under tremendous pressure to denounce my father.
She refused.
And my mother was made to kneel on broken glass.
She was paraded in the streets where children spat at her and threw stones at her.
The desire to write never left me.
So in the following years, when I was working as a peasant and as a barefoot doctor,
as a steel worker and the electrician, I was always writing in my head with an imaginary pen.
Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Hyeong-Chang.
Her first book, Wild Swans, has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.
The US diplomat, George Kennan, described the Gulag Kargopalago he said,
This is the greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever to be leveled in modern times.
And when I read that quote,
I realized that this is exactly how I describe your books, Wild Swans, obviously,
but also your biography of Mao, titled Mao, The Unknown Story, both I wish we'll talk about today.
It is a true honor to speak with you.
Thank you very much for having me.
So we will get it to Mao and his atrocities in a second,
but let us begin by Would you mind laying the scene for us?