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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T100000
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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/escaping-from-the-communists-a
 nd-then-from-the-anti-communists-a-prisoners-odyssey-from-southwest-china-
 to-korea-india-and-argentina/
SUMMARY:Escaping from the Communists and then from the Anti-Communists: A P
 risoner’s Odyssey from Southwest China to Korea\, India\, and Argentina
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Asia Center\, the Fairbank Center for Chi
 nese Studies\, and the Korea Institute\n\nTalk will be held via Zoom\n\nRe
 gistration required: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItd-qurD8r
 GNJBFrr8tS6X1695eSvlSswX\n\nBy the end of the Korean War\, only 88 out of 
 more than 150\,000 Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war (POWs) refuse
 d to return to either side of their divided countries\; instead\, they sou
 ght asylum in neutral nations. Using oral history interviews and archival 
 documents from the United States\, Taiwan\, and India\, this talk charts t
 he life history of Cheng Liren: from his education as a police academy cad
 et during the civil war and his first job as a police officer in his home 
 province Guizhou in the final days of the Nationalist regime\, to his desp
 erate enlistment in the Communist army\, desertion in Korea\, rise and fal
 l as an anti-Communist POW leader on Koje and Cheju Islands\, his daring e
 scape from fellow anti-Communist POWs at Panmunjom\, to his two-year sojou
 rn in India\, and his final settlement and business success in Argentina.
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
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