This book is very well written and interesting. It is about three generation of woman in one Chinese family with history background. I can recommend this book enough. A must read.
The first impression this book made on me was, can this family never get a break? If not being beaten by occupying Japanese or robbed by Kuomintang gangsters, they’re trying to navigate the shifting politics of the Communist administration the author’s parents were officials in -- there were sometim...
Wonderful first-hand account of life in China from the times of Japanese rule to Kuomintang and then to the Communist-era of Mao Zedong and his queer policies and ending with liberal term of Deng Xiaoping. It is a well-written memoir and kept my interest going till the end. It though drags a bit at ...
Mao: The Unknown Story has generated a lot of controversy. Though Chang and Halliday spent over a decade researching this book, there are questions by other scholars about the accuracy of sources, statements taken out of context and the conclusions drawn by ambiguous evidence. Not being a Chinese...
A fascinating description of one family's experiences of China's political upheavals during the 20th century. Although Jung Chang's family are fairly privileged much of the time, they still experience great hardships: being an official and Party member was no guarantee of immunity from persecution a...
Several years ago, I was at a Buddhist grotto in an isolated hillside in rural China. As I walked past the small caverns filled with statues, I noticed that most of the statuettes were headless. The Chinese math teacher at the middle school I had been working at was serving as my guide. “What hap...
An absolutely fascinating book. Just like most other people in the Western world I know far too little about the history and culture of China and as such was at the same time totally fascinated and appalled by what I read here. Allegedly Mao caused more deaths than Hitler and Stalin put together, ye...
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