Revolution is not a Dinner Party

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Call Number: Y Fiction / Compestine, Ying
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	Y Fiction / Compestine, Ying	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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.