Two hundred words, and the future she dreamed of would be within reach.
That is, 200 words condemning her American father, regurgitating the Chinese Communist Party line that he was “a servile follower of capitalism and an enemy of the Chinese people,” and declaring that she was severing all ties with him.
“Write that,” a school official instructed 18-year-old Teresa Buczacki, “and the doors of Beijing University or Tsinghua University”—the country’s most elite schools—“will be open to you.”
She refused. The punishment was swift, and the consequences irrevocable.
An American in China
Buczacki, who writes under the pen name Han Xiu, was born in New York in 1946 to an American army officer and a Chinese actress. Her parents separated when she was  1 1/2 years old, and she was sent to China as a toddler to live with her grandmother in Beijing….