EPISODE · Aug 25, 2021 · 15 MIN
Nien Cheng
from Now I've Heard Everything · host Bill Thompson
Nien Cheng was born into a well-to-do Chinese family in 1915. Her family was able to give her a college education, including post-graduate work at the London School of economics. That's where she met her future husband. But the time she spent in Great Britain may have been a time bomb of sorts. In 1966, at the age of 51, Nien Cheng, by then a widow, was arrested and accused by the Chinese Communist government of being a Britiah spy. For nearly seven years Nien Cheng was imprisoned and sometimes tortured. After her eventual release, she came to the United States.
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Nien Cheng was born into a well-to-do Chinese family in 1915. Her family was able to give her a college education, including post-graduate work at the London School of economics. That's where she met her future husband. But the time she spent in Great Britain may have been a time bomb of sorts. In 1966, at the age of 51, Nien Cheng, by then a widow, was arrested and accused by the Chinese Communist government of being a Britiah spy. For nearly seven years Nien Cheng was imprisoned and sometimes tortured. After her eventual release, she came to the United States.
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