Books like A Single Tear: A Family's Persecution, Love, and Endurance in Communist China

This is the best book I have read to understand the Chinese Cultural Revolution and how exactly, it tore apart the very fiber of life, but also, how a family could survive it and come out of it victorious. I usually read it once a year, just as a reminder of the beauty of freedom.Ningkun Wu is hugely inspirational to me, and his wife and children, who also write certain chapters of the book, are just as inspirational. They not only survive a horrible era in history, but learn to keep the right perspective through it all and even humor, when there was none. This couple also learned how to instill in their children the value of freedom and other family principles, even though they were raised a majority of the time by the government daycare, "kindegarten" and Communist school system.The author is also an extraordinary writer, who conveys the pain, suffering, loss and sorrow of this time in a beautiful and even poetic way at times. He learned to find the beauty in an ugly and disheartening system that left no room for creative thought, art, literature or faith of any kind.