Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now Paperback - 1997
by Jan Wong
Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. This superb memoir offers a startling--and ironic--account of Wong's rocky six-year romance with Maoism and an engaging portrait of this tumultuous time in Chinese history. of photos.
First line
"What am I going to do in China at night?"
From the jacket flap
Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool Factory. In the name of the Revolution, she renounced rock & roll, hauled pig manure in the paddy fields, and turned in a fellow student who sought her help in getting to the United States. She also met and married the only American draft dodger from the Vietnam War to seek asylum in China.
"Red China Blues is Wong's startling--and ironic--memoir of her rocky six-year romance with Maoism (which crumbled as she became aware of the harsh realities of Chinese communism); her dramatic firsthand account of the devastating Tiananmen Square uprising; and her engaging portrait of the individuals and events she covered as a correspondent in China during the tumultuous era of capitalist reform under Deng Xiaoping. In a frank, captivating, deeply personal narrative she relates the horrors that led to her disillusionment with the "worker's paradise." And through the stories of the people--an unhappy young woman who was sold into marriage, China's most famous dissident, a doctor who lengthens penises--Wong reveals long-hidden dimensions of the world's most populous nation. In setting out to show readers in the Western world what life is like in China, and why we should care, she reacquaints herself with the old friends--and enemies of her radical past, and comes to terms with the legacy of her ancestral homeland.
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- Title Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now
- Author Jan Wong
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor Books, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Date May 19, 1997
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780385482325 / 0385482329
- Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.22 x 5.56 x 1.05 in (20.88 x 14.12 x 2.67 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects China - Politics and government - 1949-, China - Social conditions - 1949-
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Christianity Today, 06/01/2008, Page 55
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