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Article: `MIDDLE HEART' DEPICTS CHINA'S IDEOLOGICAL WARS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- April 7, 1996
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Byline: CAROLE GOLDBERG
Say something not politically correct in America, and it might get you a raised eyebrow or a heated argument.
In China, it might get you decades in a prison camp.
Bette Bao Lord, born in Shanghai in 1938, a graduate of Tufts University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and wife of a former U.S. ambassador to China, has intimate knowledge of the political upheavals that have swept China in this century. Her acclaimed non-fiction book, ``Legacies, A Chinese Mosaic,'' published in 1990, chronicled the strug@@hyphen@@gles that foreshadowed the tragedy of Tiananmen Square.
In ``The Middle Heart,'' Lord ...