Hard Time: 30 Months in a Chinese Labor Camp

Meet Pockmark, Tiger, Black Head and other unforgettable people in this account of life in Chadian Labor Reform Farm Number 583, an infamous Chinese Labor Camp during the Cultural Revolution. The degradation and humiliation of "labor reform elements" is described in agonizing detail, as the inmates struggle to maintain their basic human dignity. Liu Zongren's frank account of his time there helps us understand what an entire generation of Chinese intellectuals experienced in those turbulent years.