Crossing the Wall

The Maoists robbed Hui Zhi Song's family of its wealth. The Red Guards persecuted her. Her mother exploited her. Bereft of love and full of grief, the thirty-four-year-old slipped out of communist China to start a new life alone in a promised land. Then her troubles began. Against a background of sadness and lonliness, Hui Zhi Song tells a story of relentless determination and stubborn hope.