Life and Death in Shanghai, Nien Cheng history Harvard professor Robert Langdon must

Harvard professor Robert Langdon must decipher a labyrinthine trail of ancient symbols if he is to defeat those responsible - the Illuminati - a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years

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Life and Death in Shanghai, Nien Cheng history Harvard professor Robert Langdon mustThis is a first hand account of China's cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. All attempts to make her confess to the charges of being a British spy failed; all efforts to indoctrinate her were met by a steadfast and fearless refusal to accept the terms offered by her interrogators. When she was