Recommendation -- Life and Death in Shanghai

Okay, just read a book I loved -- Life and Death in Shanghai. It's the memoir of a woman in China during the Cultural Revolution. The author, Nien Cheng, is just an amazingly unique and stubborn person and I loved her. I realized that I know next to nothing about Mao -- evil genuis or what!? It helped me understand why Americans were so suspicious of (could be would be) communists in their midst in the 50s and 60s. Inspired, I have started my very own blacklist. ;-) -- Manda