Stifle Tears Under the Lash

About the Book

Sima is concluding college when he is thrown in prison on a fabricated charge. He finished his term in five years. Refusing to withstand the tortures and humiliations that are the lot of political prisioners, Ma escapes and lives like an outlaw a few years before a report brings him back to the labor camp. He is eventually released 19 years afterwards. His life in and out of the labor camp is intermingled with untold physical and spiritual suffering and lovely romances that lend a light to the dreary prison life. His life as an outlaw is hard but colorful, and his endeavors characterized by an unremitting search for justice and true love.

About the Author

Ma Changkai was born in November 7, 1941. He was on his way to college when he was involved in a nondescript political storm which swept the nation along with the great famine in the early sixties. He received five years in a labor camp in the nation's northern border. At the end of his term Ma was compelled to remain on the farm when he became the target of continued humiliations and physical torture. He escaped and lived as an outlaw. Soon he was recaptured and sent back where he lived until 1979, having spent 19 years in the labor camp. Politically rehabilitated in the early 1980s Ma founded a motor garage and made a fortune. In 1992 he sold the garage to become a freelance writer.