The House Arrest of Zhang Xueliang: A Memoir of Growing Up with China's Most Famous Political Prisoner

A personal account of living with Chinese General Zhang Xueliang during the first twenty-five years of his house arrest in China and Taiwan.

When Chinese General Zhang Xueliang kidnapped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the Xi'an Incident of 1936 and forced a truce between the Communists and the Nationalists to join forces to fight the Japanese, he changed the course of Chinese history. For his actions, Zhang Xueliang was placed under house arrest for fifty years, where he remained secluded ...