The Red Mirror: Children of China's Cultural Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780367320379 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 195 str.

Chihua Wen;Bruce Jones

Opis

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 na

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Chihua Wen