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The Blossoming of Anchee Min // China Native's Book Weaves Her Story, History
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Anchee Min's life reads like one of those vivid historical novels
with strong, passionate characters and events that sweep across whole
eras and continents. This one starts out in modern China, and in
some ways it's just now unfolding.
A former Little Red Guard, soldier and field worker on the Red
Fire Farm, film star and paragon of proletarian beauty, Min came to
Chicago nine years ago, pretending to know English and hoping to
escape the bleakness of her life in China after a precipito...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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TALKING VOLUMES; Anchee Min's long march; The novelist, ever mindful of her own dehumanized status during the Cultural Revolution, takes up the cause of China's much-vilified Empress Orchid.(VARIETY)(TALKING VOLUMES)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; Byline: Sarah T. Williams; Staff Writer Anchee Min scans the battalions of vegetables in her raised garden beds and quickly beheads the broccoli, cauliflower and collard greens destined for her wok. There is a fierce economy in her movements, a competent chop/sweep of the cleaver. Enter the force
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Fall From Grace - Ideology shapes the lives of three ordinary schoolchildren in a novel that dramatizes China's Cultural Revolution.(Book Review)
World and I
; Book Info:WILD GINGER Anchee Min Publisher:Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002 224 pp., $23.00 In Wild Ginger, Anchee Min revisits the territory of her previous work set in China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Wild Ginger is a compelling blend of the personal and political. It's a classic
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THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION AT THE GRASS ROOTS
The China Journal
; THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION AT THE GRASS ROOTS Jonathan Unger* The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History, edited by Joseph Esherick, Paul G. Pickowicz and Andrew G. Walder. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. x + 382 pp. US$65.00 (hardcover), US$24.95 (paperback). Because of the headlong rush
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China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives
The China Journal
; China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives, edited by Woei Lien Chong. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. xix + 410 pp. US$80.00 (hardcover), US$34.95 (paperback). This volume explores the tension created by the Communist Party's 1991
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Anchee Min's `Red Azalea' Sheds Light On The Cultural Revolution
AsianWeek
; Elisa Lee AsianWeek 04-29-1994 Anchee Min's `Red Azalea' Sheds Light On The Cultural Revolution. It is ironic that Anchee Min's life story, one full of hardship, fear and poverty, should read so much like poetry. Ironic that the description of an era in which most signs of intellectual and creative
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The Chinese Cultural Revolution Reconsidered: Beyond Purge and Holocaust
The China Journal
; The Chinese Cultural Revolution Reconsidered: Beyond Purge and Holocaust, edited by Kam-yee Law. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xi + 290 pp. 55.00 (hardcover). Kam-yee Law's book offers the strengths and weaknesses one often encounters in edited volumes bringing together
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MAKING SENSE OF THE `GREAT DISORDER' OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
The Boston Globe
; There is a play on words popular among Beijing intellectuals that transposes the characters for "cultural revolution" "wenhua da geming" to create a satiric expression, "da ge wenhua ming," which translates loosely as "the revolution that destroyed the life of culture." As a campaign against the
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Mao embraced as a hero by many, a deity by some But shame and secrecy shroud the Cultural Revolution he inspired Series: China \ The New Revolution
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Thirty years ago, during one of the most brutal upheavals in Chinese history, Communist Party zealots inspired by Mao Tse-tung rampaged through this dusty town, killing scores of innocent people and destroying places of worship. You'd think Mao might never be forgiven. But when locals recently
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REVISING MADAME MAO NOVELIST ANCHEE MIN DRAWS A NEW PICTURE OF A LEADER OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
The Boston Globe
; "Do you know the difference between a traditional opera and a Madame Mao opera?" Anchee Min, addressing an audience packed into the reading room at Brookline Booksmith, proceeds to demonstrate. While singing the traditional Chinese opera, she stands still at the lectern, smiling gently, her voice
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The Cultural Revolution in the Foreign Ministry of China
The China Journal
; The Cultural Revolution in the Foreign Ministry of China, by Ma Jisen. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2004. xvi + 466 pp. US$39.00 (hardcover), US$25.00 (paperback). Ma Jisen's book deals with a subject broader than its title indicates. The Cultural Revolution in China's Foreign Ministry
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