Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
by Jan Wong
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Author: Jan WongEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-05-19
ISBN: 0385482329
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Anchor
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Summary: 4 Stars
The author is a thoroughly competent modern journalist. This book will tell you a lot about the grimness of the last years of the Mao era. About the contradictions of modern China, which is in all respects a fascist dictatorship. About the ludicrous prudishness of the Chinese. About the great somber city of Beijing. About the June day in 1989, when the Chinese army opened fire on a huge crowd, killing many thousands. No other dictatorship of this horrible century ever dared execute a mob. Jan Wong witnessed this massacre.But most of all, this is a superb memoir by North American woman Baby Boomer (born 1952) with a superb, even raunchy sense of humor. Now happily married (to a Caucasian), mother of two children, and nobody's fool. A story of how a bright woman was seduced by Maoism, and totally outgrew it. How someone who was fully racially Chinese discovered that she was ineradicably North American.
Our world is a better place, if it can produce people like Jan Wong.
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