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Red Azalea

Anchee Min
In this bestselling memoir Anchee Min documents her experiences growing up during China’s Cultural Revolution (1964–76), ‘which brought destruction to every family in the nation and took millions of lives’. As she tells of the work she was forced to perform on a communal farm and her recruitment to work on Madame Mao’s propaganda movies, she writes poignantly of the price of illicit love in a repressive society.
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Product information:
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury
  • Year: 2009
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 314pp
  • Illustrated: No
  • Dimensions: 197x128mm
  • ISBN: 9780747596035
  • Condition: New
  • Weight: 0.2kg
Product code:
545669
Category tags:
Autobiographies & Memoirs
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Biography & Memoirs
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Literary Autobiographies & Memoirs
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Born into a devoutly Maoist family in 1950s Shanghai and forced to work on a communal farm from the age of seventeen, Anchee Min found herself in an alienating and hostile political climate, where her only friendships were perilous and intense. Both candid and touching, this compelling memoir documents her isolation and illicit love against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution. From her coming of age in the Red Guard to her recruitment into Madame Mao's burgeoning industry of propaganda movies, Red Azalea explores the secret sensuality of a repressive society with elegance and honesty.
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