Wu Ningkun
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Wu Ningkun is an intellectual who was born in mainland China. He undertook graduate-level studies of English literature at the University of Chicago. In 1949, he returned to the People's Republic of China to work as an English professor at the Peking University. Later, however, he was suspected of being an American spy. Additionally, his espousal of the freedom of speech and free thought led to his persecution during the Great Leap Forward (1958-1962) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1981).
Eventually he was released and returned to the United States. In 1994 he published an autobiography entitled A Single Tear.
His experiences were somewhat the opposite of what Tsien Hsue-shen went through during the Red Scare in the United States about the same time.
