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After the Nightmare, by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro (Knopf, 240 pp., $16.95)

Imagine a country where liberal rhetoric about the McCarthy era fitted reality literally, and you have some idea of China during the Cultural Revolution. Liang Heng is a young Chinese expatriate who, with his wife, Judith Shapiro, wrote an account of those days in Son of the Revolution (which I haven’t read). Now they have been allowed to revisit China, and the result is After the Nightmare, a first-person account written in Liang Heng’s voice.

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After the Nightmare, by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro (Knopf, 240 pp., $16.95)

Imagine a country where liberal rhetoric about the McCarthy era fitted reality literally, and you have some idea of China during the Cultural Revolution. Liang Heng is a young Chinese expatriate who, with his wife, Judith Shapiro, wrote an account of those days in Son of the Revolution (which I haven’t read). Now they have been allowed to revisit China, and the result is After the Nightmare, a first-person account written in Liang Heng’s voice.