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The Red Mirror Children Of China's Cultural Revolution
192 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
195 Pages
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Routledge
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These evocative stories bring to life the tragic personal impact of the Cultural Revolution on the families of China's intellectuals. Now adults, survivors recall their childhood during the tumultuous years between 1965 and 1976, when Mao's death finally drew a curtain on a bitterly failed social and political experiment.A series of first-person narratives eloquently describes the life-long... Read more
Foreword -- Author's Introduction -- The Stories -- Prisoners and Wardens -- Butterflies and Rain -- Familiar Weapons -- Poems and Pigs -- A Treat for my Father -- Iron Grandma -- For a Little Love -- Sustaining Life -- A Proper Lady -- In Gorky's Footsteps -- Class Origins -- Presumed Guilt -- No Adolescence -- Postscript
Biography
Chihua Wen
