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Red Azalea is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read, write, or love as she pleased, she found a lifeline in a secret love affair with another woman. Miraculously selected for the film version of one of Madame Mao’s political operas, Min’s life changed overnight. Then Chairman Mao suddenly died, taking with him an entire world. A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, Anchee Min’s memoir is exceptional for its candor, its poignancy, its courage, and for its prose which Newsweek calls "as delicate and evocative as a traditional Chinese brush painting."
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This is an honest and frightening memoir of growing up in Communist China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. Min describes a systematically deprived Shanghai childhood (the family was forced into successively meaner quarters); school days spent as a member of the Red Guard, spouting the words of Chairman Mao and being forced to publicly betray her favorite teacher; and later teen years on a work farm in order to become a peasant because peasants were the only true vanguard of the revolution. The farm years, with their backbreaking workdays and heartbreaking, lonely nights, exemplify the grinding insanity of the Cultural Revolution, the terror and dehumanization it inflicted on ordinary Chinese. Eventually, Min was tapped by the party to be in the propaganda film Red Azalea, during the making of which she suffered more humiliation and political subterfuge. What is so extraordinary is that Min managed to keep a tight hold on her spirit. Her autobiography is not just a coming-of-age story or history lesson; it is a tale of inner strength and courage that transcends time and place. Mary Ellen Sullivan
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- PublisherNew York: Pantheon Books
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0394259378
- ISBN 13 9780394259376
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages306
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New York: Pantheon Books, 1993
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Advance Reader's Edition, 1993. Flat-signed by the author on the half-title page. Tight binding with light rubbing to wrapper corners and a small chip along edge of spine. Very light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Text is unmarked. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # CHAPminRED
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Pantheon Books 1994-02-01 00:00:00 Binding: Trade Paperback ISBN:0-394-2593. Near Fine. in Wraps dj. 302 pages. F Advanced Uncorrected Proof Advanced Reading Copy ARC. Binding is S Soft Cover. 8 vo. Seller Inventory # 23421
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