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- Author
- Anchee Min
- Narrator
- Emily Woo Zeller
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 8 May 2018
- Run Time
- 9 hours 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
As a child, Min 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.
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Details
- Author
- Anchee Min
- Narrator
- Emily Woo Zeller
- Duration
- 9 hours 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 May 2018
- ISBN
- 9781977377678
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Biography: general, Biography: general, Ethnic studies, Biography: general, Gender studies: women and girls, Memoirs, Asian history, Biography: general, Ethnic studies, History, Asian history
Synopsis
A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, this is Anchee Min's celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao's China.As a child, Min 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.
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