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The Joy Luck Club is not about the Cultural Revolution in any way. 100 books based on 55 votes: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, Life and Death Ar...
- Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng - Goodreads
Nien Cheng is a Chinese American author who recounted her...
- Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution - Goodreads
During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and...
- Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng - Goodreads
26 lip 2022 · The book was about China’s Cultural Revolution, the political purge from 1966 to 1976 that killed more than a million people and sent scientists, writers, artists and millions of educated...
1 sty 2001 · Nien Cheng is a Chinese American author who recounted her harrowing experiences of the Cultural Revolution in her memoir Life and Death in Shanghai. Cheng became a target of attack by Red Guards due to her management of a foreign firm in Shanghai, Shell.
When it comes to Mao’s labor camps in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, few books are as powerful and authentic as Yang’s collection of 13 stories. Set against one of the darkest tragedies in China’s modern history, these stories are based on his interviews with the survivors of a forced-labor camp in China’s northwestern desert.
2 lut 2023 · During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children condemned parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized, and imprisoned.
Between 500,000 to 2 million people died in the Cultural Revolution. Yet a silence remains as to why. Over eleven years in Mao’s China, an all-out assault on ‘class enemies’ took place. Teenagers smashed their teachers’ skulls. Doctors were tortured in jail as foreign spies.
1 Fractured Rebellion by Andrew Walder. 2 The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History by Joseph Esherick, Pickowicz & Walder. 3 Proletarian Power by Elizabeth Perry & Elizabeth Perry and Li Xun. 4 The Tragedy of Lin Biao by Frederick Teiwes & Warren Sun. 5 Blood Red Sunset by Ma Bo. Read.
