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A first-hand account of growing up in China during the political and social turmoil of the Cultural Revolution and the period following vividly reveals little-known and previously unknown aspects of life in China.
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"An Oriental Tom Jones." -- Newsweek
Liang Heng was born in 1954 in Changsha, a large city in Central China. His parents were intellectuals -- his father a reporter on a major provincial newspaper, his mother a ranking cadre in the local police. This is Liang Heng's own story of growing up in the turmoil of the Great Cultural Revolution. His story is unique, but at the same time it is in many ways typical of those millions of young Chinese who have been tested almost beyond endurance in recent years. In his words we hear an entire generation speaking.
"A poignant inside look at what happened to ordinary citizens when the movement that ousted Chiang Kaishek's totalitarianism turned against itself. Liang helps Americans understand the past that China's leaders must overcome to cope with the future."
-- The Chicago Sun-Times
"Three stories in one -- first, a graphic, I-was-there account of what it was like to grow up during the Cultural Revolution; second, a cliffhanger love story with a happy ending; and third, a poignant analysis of how Chinese people have tried and failed, and tried again, to break out of their past. Each of these accounts is worth reading on its own." -- The New York Review of Books
"A significant event in our understanding of China...compelling, detailed, and devastating."
-- The New Republic
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An autobiography of a young Chinese man whose childhood and adolescence were spent in Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution.
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