Swimming to Freedom: My Escape from China and the Cultural Revolution

Swimming to Freedom is a deeply personal, heart-wrenching memoir of Kent Wong’s upbringing in Communist China during the Cultural Revolution and his tenacious flight to freedom against all odds.

When Kent Wong was a young boy, his father, a patriotic Chinese official in the customs office in Hong Kong, joined an insurrection at work and returned with the family to the newly established People’s Republic of China. Hailed as heroes, they settled in the southern city of Canton. But Mao’s Chin...