Richard gives his detailed review of LiJia Zhang's book - Socialism Is Great, the story of a woman who was sent to work in a missile factory in post-Cultural Revolution China. Despite the hardships of the work, Zhang taught herself English and rebelled against the unfair practices of the factory. Not only does she pull herself out of the factory - but she goes on to be a writer and commentator on BBC and NPR. As Richard puts it - it trumps "just about every conceivable Cinderella story."

Hundreds of thousands of Shanghai teenagers are sent to Xinjiang in the early 1960's. A few years later, they're fueling the chaos and violence of the Cultural Revolution. (With archive articles from the NY Times.)