F Hu Fengs Prison Years

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Hu Feng, "counterrevolutionary" leader of a banned literary school, spent 25 years in Chinese Communist Party prison system. But back in the early days of Communist China he was among the party's chief literary theoreticians and critics - at least until factional infighting, and his short fuse, made him persona non grata among the establishment. His wife, Mei Zhi, shared incarceration for many years. 'F' is her account of that time, beginning 10 years after Hu Feng's initial arrest, as she navigates the party's Byzantine prison bureaucracy, searching for his whereabouts.