Why a POW of Korean soldier refused repatriation in 1953, instead spending twelve years in communist China? What on earth was he thinking? These two questions lead me to finish Clarence Adams' book just in a few hours.
Mr Adams chose to stay in China with a hope to find educational and career opportunities not readily available in his own country - simply because he's Black. He earned a university degree and learned the language. During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, he returned to the US with his wife and two children in 1966.
It is a remarkable African-American autobiography; but it is also a book about war, the racial issues in the United States, and the life in China during the Mao's disastrous Great Leap Forward.
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