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Red Azalea : Life and Love in China

Anchee Min

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Red Azalea : Life and Love in China

by Anchee Min
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Unveiling China's cultural revolution through a forbidden love.

This memoir of Anchee Min's extraordinary life in China offers a deeply personal and emotional glimpse into a tumultuous time. Through her powerful storytelling, she delves into the complexities of navigating a society ruled by strict communist ideals, and the forbidden love affair she formed as a means of escape. With lyrical prose that brings to life the beauty of Chinese culture, Red Azalea is a mesmerizing exploration of resilience, courage, and the pursuit of love in the face of adversity.

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Red Azalea : Life and Love in China

by Anchee Min
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ISBN: 9780575400108
Author: Anchee Min
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date of Publication: 2006-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Related Topics: Biography Memoir, Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, Asia, Historical
Goodreads rating: 3.84
(rated by 10326 readers)

Description

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."
 

Unveiling China's cultural revolution through a forbidden love.

This memoir of Anchee Min's extraordinary life in China offers a deeply personal and emotional glimpse into a tumultuous time. Through her powerful storytelling, she delves into the complexities of navigating a society ruled by strict communist ideals, and the forbidden love affair she formed as a means of escape. With lyrical prose that brings to life the beauty of Chinese culture, Red Azalea is a mesmerizing exploration of resilience, courage, and the pursuit of love in the face of adversity.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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