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Sijie Dai
Birth date: March 02, 1954
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Portable Magic
Portable Magic rated it 7 years ago
This was an interesting story with an unusual setting – China during Mao’s Cultural Revolution in the 1970s – following two teenaged boys who are being “re-educated” in the country for the crime of being part of the bourgeoisie, as part of the Down to the Countryside Movement. In a political and soc...
BagEndBooks
BagEndBooks rated it 8 years ago
2 1/2 starsI liked a lot about this book, and the main character, and it's premise of reading forbidden western books in communist China, but I was filled with dismay by the approach the author took to the abortion. I understand that in communist China, the Little Seamstress would have felt that she...
Sheila's Reads
Sheila's Reads rated it 9 years ago
I found Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch to be a disjointed, vaguely plotted book. I did not enjoy it and forced myself to finish it because I was reading it for book club. I kept hoping to find the humor in it since written on the back cover was how funny it was but I never found the humor. I don't know ...
rameau's ramblings
rameau's ramblings rated it 9 years ago
Good for cultural understanding, nothing for feminism in here.
Julian Meynell's Books
Julian Meynell's Books rated it 10 years ago
This is a coming of age story set in a remote set of villages during the Cultural Revolution. The tone is whimsical and humourous. Where it looks at the oppression of the cultural revolution it looks at the small oppressions and not the big things.It is first and foremost a book on the liberating ...
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