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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 951.0560924 EAN: 9780394722740 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0394722744 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: February 12, 1984 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: February 12, 1984 Studio: Vintage Related Items:
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 Rating:  - This fellow writes almost as well as Chinese women!This book, published in 1980, is a superbly-told personal account of one family's terrible break-up and sufferings in Changsha, China during the Cultural Revolution. The writer is a boy, later a young man, accused of belonging to a "Rightist", "Capitalist Roader" family (mother an official with the local police; father working on local newspaper). The whole family winds up scattered, with the usual misery of labor camps, "sent-down" people in the equivalent of Soviet gulags, working with "the peasants". ... Read More Rating: - A view from the ground up.This was an excellent book that showed the effects of the 'Cultural Revolution' from the perspective of individuals. The book does not cover the movements in an overall view but keeps with the viewpoint of the individual. I think it would help to have a basic understanding of Chinese history during this era, to fully appreciate what is going on in this more detailed and finer viewpoint. Liang learns of the contradictions in this "socialist" society. He does not demonize the Chinese people but shows how they ... Read More Rating: - InspiringThis book is what "Catcher in the Rye" is to adolescents in America...and for all backgrounds, its THE novel to read. its so real and current and applicable to one's own life. I feel the struggles of Liang Heng and his family. Its told in a way thats enjoyable yet saddening. His loneliness becomes the reader's loneliness. I read this book while going through a hard time in my life. After reading his story, I had all the strength and willpower to "struggle" as if somehow through my struggle I would build charascter ... Read More Rating:  - Such a dramatic life story keeps the mundane details in perspective. A long and, at times, stressful read, but worth every beautiful word. Rating: - Accurate, personal account of modern Chinese historyLiang Heng's memoir accounts his experiences living in the second half of the 20th century. This book belongs in the category of "Wound Literature," books written post-1976 about the Cultural Revolution. While an enormous body of Wound Literature exists, Liang's is unique for the Western reader because it represents the perspective of a man. The book is a quick read and it does a good job of critically examining history but leaves out polemic politics. 
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