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- August 29, 1988PEOPLENien Cheng
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- When Nien Cheng's sleeves fall back, the scars made by her
- prison manacles are still visible. But the ordeal is now
- decades in the past for the author of Life and Death in
- Shanghai, last year's best- selling account of surviving
- persecution during China's horrendous Cultural Revolution. Last
- week, on Liberty Island, Cheng, 73, took a further step away
- from the pain when she was sworn in as an American. "I had been
- practicing the Oath of Allegiance every morning," said Cheng,
- who now lives in Washington, D.C., a city she first visited and
- fell in love with nearly 50 years ago. Since she left China in
- 1980, first for Canada, then for the U.S., Cheng has traveled
- widely in Europe and Asia. But, she says, "I always have an
- overwhelming sense of joy when I come back to America." Now she
- can say she belongs.
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