Who is Tang Dan from To the Storm: The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman and what is their importance?

Tang Dan is the daughter of Yue Daiyun and Lao Tang. She was born in July 1953. AT sixteen, she was sent to work in the countryside at Dedu county near the Soviet border. She spent eight years at the military farm before returning to Beijing. She is eventually accepted into the expanded Beida and studies library science and computers in 1979. She married and attended graduate school in New York.