Two boys, moved to the country for "re-education" as part of Mao's Cultural Revolution, find little to amuse them, but things change when they discover a stash of Western classics in Chinese translation and use the stories of Balzac to capture the attention of the beautiful daughter of the local tailor.
Mei Wang leaves a position with the ministry of public security , becomes an illegal private investigator, and is hired to find a missing jade seal, which leads her to family secrets as well as details of Communist China's history.
coming of age in China during the cultural revolution
Li, Moying
2008
The author reveals the events of her life from age twelve to adulthood when the cultural revolution of Mao Zedong destroyed family customs and life as they knew it.
Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
Presents an autobiographical account in both narrative and the drawings of artist Ange Zhang who witnessed the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and, like his father, found himself at odds with the ideology of Mao.
Explores genocide and persecution in the People's Republic of China, including the historical/cultural background of events from the rise of the communist People's Republic of China in 1949 to the present.
In her autobiography, Ping Fu tells her story as she lived it--from child soldier and political prisoner to a CEO and "Inc." magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year.
Da Chen describes his experiences growing up during the cultural revolution in China during the 1960s, and details his life after he made the decision to drop out of school and join a street gang.
