The author tells of her solitary confinement and torture as a wealthy Chinese woman during the Cultural Revolution. During China's Cultural Revolution, Nien Cheng, a fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai, was accused of being a British spy and locked up in solitary confinement for 6 1/2 years. When she was finally released - to face years of further harassment and intimidation - she learned that her daughter had been beaten to death...