Cindy Yu Cindy Yu

An insider’s account of the CCP’s stranglehold on China

A high-ranking intelligence officer leaves a cache of letters revealing his increasing disenchantment with the party after being purged numerous times

When acute famine set in after the Great Leap Forward, Jie could see the true damage the CCP was wreaking on the country. [Alamy]
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    Xinran, translated by Will Spence

    Bloomsbury, pp. 320, £25

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