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Book SynopsisConfessions of a Chinese Heroine presents the candid autobiography of Ying Mulan (born 1933), member of a famous Catholic family in Beijing, and uniquely mirrors the turbulent changes of Chinese society in the second half of the 20th century. At the age of 17 Ying Mulan was imprisoned for one year during her university studies in Shanghai because of an imprudent statement concerning the Korean War. Being blacklisted, she served as forced laborer in four different work units and labor camps from 1958 to 1980, until she finally managed to return to Beijing, where she began to work for a government organization which controls and directs the activities of the Catholic Church in China. In the labor camp in Shanxi Province she married Wang Jikun and gave birth to a daughter in 1972. Her husband died in 1990, and her daughter was independent by then. Thus at the age of 60 Ying Mulan decided to become a nun and joined the Josephine Sisters of Beijing Diocese. Sr. Ying actively participated in the many-layered revival of religious life in China since the 1980s. Her memoirs, written in 2019, look back at the sorrows and joys of a faithful and ambitious woman. Sister Ying frankly reveals many hidden details of life in China, including cruel incidents during the Cultural Revolution and insider information on the struggles of the Catholic Church within an atheist regime.
Table of ContentsChapter One: Implementation of New Politics
Chapter Two: My Way into the Labor Camp
Chapter Three: The Qinghe Farm and the Farm in Daxinzhuang
Chapter Four: My Home in Beijing
Chapter Five: The Ying Family
Chapter Six: My Middle School Years
Chapter Seven: My Shanghai Experience
Chapter Eight: By Searching for a Tomb I Found the Church
Chapter Nine: My Vocation and My Mission
Chapter Ten: The Revival of the Josephine Sisters of Beijing Diocese
Chapter Eleven: Several Major Events
Chapter Twelve: My First Journey Abroad
Chapter Thirteen: Hongkong, the Pearl of China
Chapter Fourteen: Mother Teresa Visits China
Chapter Fifteen: The Centennial Anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima
Chapter Sixteen: Fu Tieshan, the Bishop of Beijing Diocese
Chapter Seventeen: The Election of Li Shan as Bishop of Beijing Diocese
Chapter Eighteen: Driving Lessons at the Age of Seventy
Chapter Nineteen: My Stories With the Police Office
Chapter Twenty: My Infatuation With the Political Consultative Conference
Chapter Twenty-one: Dreaming of a Kingdom of Heaven on Earth
