Gao Yaojie: The Conscience in China’s Blood Catastrophe
Prologue: The Final Watch On December 10, 2023—International Human Rights Day—ninety-five-year-old Gao Yaojie passed away in her sleep in a small apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. She was just nine days short of her ninety-sixth birthday. The frail old woman had been in exile in the United States for fourteen years. Her feet had been bound in childhood, leaving her with a lifelong limp. Three-quarters of her stomach had been removed after a suicide attempt during the Cultural Revolution.…