A Lifetime in Recovery From the Cultural Revolution - New York Times

A profile of Xu Tian, Yale Genetics.
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The Saturday Profile
A Lifetime in Recovery From the Cultural Revolution

By HOWARD W. FRENCH
Published: October 22, 2005


SOMETIMES a single life can tell more about a country's experience than a shelfful of history books. Many Chinese people of a certain age have such lives - rich in struggle, in suffering, in the consequences of man's folly, but often enough, too, in a measure of redemption....