Mao's Vagabonds: Alfred Kong

ISBN-13: 9781451576375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 218 str.

Alfred Kong; Jyanzi Kong

Opis

This book is for those who still believe in the now defunct oxymoronic ideology of Marx-Lenin-Stalin Mao and otherwise . Alfred was born Kong Yew Leong in 1914 and raised in the 'Heart of Borneo', where life was joyous, natural and in deep harmony with Nature and fellow inhabitants. As a young man, he had ventured east to Shanghai where he studies Journalism and History in St. John University. After graduation, he stayed on, hoping to serve Sun Yat Sen's New China but his good intentions and dreams were crashed by the Nationalist as well as the Communist, both of whom had committed brutal, exploitative 'sins' against their own kind. He was caught in between and was squeezed into a state of non-existence, the essence of which was completely extinguished by mass hysteria involving methods and means to eradicate individualism, of which he had valued most in a free and open society. Although this is his first and last book, he hoped to reveal the many personal accounts of his life in 'hell' behind the Bamboo Curtain-a prison with bars. His vagabond years of living suspiciously after 'liberation', had transformed him from being the carefree boy of islands and rainforests to that of a man filled with fear and disillusion, living in cities that were filled with political upheavals and social stress. For him, the constant and repetitive sign of 'no exit' haunted and possessed him forever and eventually became the 'seed' that led his early death in 1966.