Shattered Families, Broken Dreams

Sin-Lin’s work recounts in vivid detail her bitter experiences in Mao's China. During the Great Terror, her father was arrested on false espionage charges and languished in a gulag for seventeen years before returning to China in 1955. His recollections, enfolded within Sin-Lin’s memoir, open up the hitherto closed world of the hundreds of Chinese who were among Stalin's victims.