No Wall Too High

“The gripping and deeply moving account of a man’s lifelong struggle to reach freedom, driven by an indomitable will to survive in Mao’s China.” —Xiaolu Guo, author of Nine Continents Xu Hongci was a bright young student at the Shanghai No. 1 Medical College, spending his days studying to be a professor and going to the movies with his girlfriend. He was also an idealistic and loyal member of the Communist Party and was generally liked and well respected. But when Mao delivered his famous Februa