Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2008
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. First edition with number line. Ex-library with stickers and stamps. DJ: in mylar. Red boards. Crisp, tight and square.
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- Title
- Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution
- Author
- Li, Moying
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0374399220
- ISBN 13
- 9780374399221
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography, European History, Politics
Most people cannot remember when their childhood ended. I, on the other hand, have a crystal-clear memory of that moment. It happened at night in the summer of 1966, when my elementary school headmaster hanged himself.
In 1966 Moying, a student at a prestigious language school in Beijing, seems destined for a promising future. Everything changes when student Red Guards begin to orchestrate brutal assaults, violent public humiliations, and forced confessions. After watching her teachers and headmasters beaten in public, Moying flees school for the safety of home, only to witness her beloved grandmother denounced, her home ransacked, her father's precious books flung onto the back of a truck, and Baba himself taken away. From labor camp, Baba entrusts a friend to deliver a reading list of banned books to Moying so that she can continue to learn. Now, with so much of her life at risk, she finds sanctuary in the world of imagination and learning.
This inspiring memoir follows Moying Li from age twelve to twenty-two, illuminating a complex, dark time in China's history as it tells the compelling story of one girl's difficult but determined coming-of-age during the Cultural Revolution.
Snow Falling in Spring is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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About the Author
MOYING LI, one of the first students to leave China for study abroad after the Cultural Revolution, came to the United States in 1980 on a full scholarship from Swarthmore College. She holds an M.A., an M.B.A., and a Ph.D. She lives in Boston and Beijing.
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