""Wang Meng is the only Chinese writer who really understands China"", according to noted sinologist Merle Goldman. His memoir is a colourful record of life in an eventful era when one could get up in the morning a CCP official and go to bed an ""enemy"" of the people.

""Wang Meng is the only Chinese writer who really understands China"", according to noted sinologist Merle Goldman. His memoir is a colourful record of life in an eventful era when one could get up in the morning a CCP official and go to bed an ""enemy"" of the people.