Revolution is not a Dinner Party
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Maps on endpapers.
1. Little flower -- Father's ponytails -- Waste is a great crime -- Bartering with Comrade Li-- Homemade ice cream and German chocolate -- "Bloodsucking landlord!" -- Will butterflies land on me? -- The terrifying birthday -- Crushed under the heel -- 2. Bamboo in the wind -- Revolution is not a dinner party -- Drawing a class line -- Dark clouds -- Would I ever see him again? -- The long white rope -- Shopping with Mother -- 3. Bridge behind Mao -- Angry tiger -- Too proud to bend -- Waiting for Daddy -- Howling wolf -- Pig fat -- Golden Gate Bridge -- Author's note -- Historical background.
Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
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Interesting submitted by c_.115 on June 18, 2018, 3:24pm This book taught a lot about the history of China, and how people survived during the time when Mao Zedong ruled.
PUBLISHED
New York : H. Holt, 2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: 248 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0805082077
SUBJECTS
Persecution -- Fiction.
Family life -- China -- Fiction.
Physicians -- Fiction.
Communism -- Fiction.
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Fiction.