Arise, China: Sixty Years in China

By Liang Hou

Book Overview

Born in Zhejiang Province in 1932, Liang Hou was destined to experience pivotal moments in Chinese history firsthand. A year before his birth, Japan began to occupy China's northwest provinces. By the time Liang turned five, the Sino-Japanese War was fully underway. Liang would see his country humiliated and oppressed, but he would also see it rise. Over the next sixty years, he would experience the Chinese Civil War, the Anti-Rightist Movement, and the famine-plagued period of the Three-Year Hunger. He would endure personal attacks on his career and family during the Cultural Revolution and bear witness to the tumultuous 1989 Tiananmen Square incident. "Arise, China: Sixty Years in China" is the remarkable story of twentieth-century China and Liang's own story. As a young solider in the People's Liberation Army, he fought bandits while dreaming of an engineering career-a dream that seemed impossible until fate presented him with a chance to realize his goals. He would become an influential figure in Chinese aerotechnology. Liang's life offers insight into aspects of Chinese history unknown to many in the West and chronicles China's rise to a position as a major global power.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1523611839
• ISBN13: 9781523611836
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"