· Wai Chim. This incredible tale about two boys' swim from mainland China to Hong Kong in search of freedom from poverty and oppression is inspired by a true story. Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China’s ‘Great Leap Forward’, and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education . Freedom Swimmer. Wai Chim. Scholastic Press, $ (p) ISBN Opening in and then resuming in , and inspired by her father’s experiences, Chim (The Surprising. · Wai Chim, Freedom Swimmer, Allen Unwin, Sept , pp., $ (pbk), ISBN: Freedom Swimmer is the story of a friendship between city boy and exemplary Communist Party youth, Li, and the village pariah, Ming. Ming’s father was shot for attempting to swim to Hong Kong and he lost the rest of his family in the famine of the Three Years of Natural Disasters and .
Freedom Swimmer ebook By Wai Chim. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts. Save Not today. Format. ebook. Author. Wai Chim. Publisher. Allen Unwin. Wai Chim's evocative tale was long-listed for CBCA Book of the Year and this incredible story about two boys' swim from mainland China to Hong Kong in search of freedom from poverty and oppression is inspired by a true story! Collectively, they were known in the media as the 'Freedom Swimmers'. They were our parents. Join author Wai Chim '00 and Broadway performer Telly Leung '98 in conversation with journalist Heather Chin '02 as they discuss Wai's latest novel for young adult readers, Freedom Swimmer (Scholastic Press ) inspired by their parents.
This incredible story about two boys' swim from mainland China to Hong Kong in search of freedom from poverty and oppression is inspired by a true story.←. Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's 'Great Leap Forward', and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields.←. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals. The author fictionalizes her own father's daring escape from Mao's authoritarian China of the 's. The path to freedom was a narrow channel patrolled by machine gun wielding police and infested with sharks. Still there were those who would risk death for just a chance at freedom. AMAZING and all the more stunning that it is based on a true story. Freedom Swimmer. Shaozhen. The Chook Chook Series. Wai Chim -
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