Life and Death in Shanghai
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781417629442 (1417629444)
Publish date: May 1st 1988
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Biography Memoir,
China
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No matter what other merits or lack thereof this book had, I'd give it 5 stars just for how much it got me thinking. Although I've read several books about the Cultural Revolution and even studied it in a class at a prestigious university, nothing brought it home like this book. It should be require...
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