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Nien Cheng
August 29, 1988
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.