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Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now

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Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese language descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 on the top of the Cultural Revolution. A real believer–and one in every of handiest Westerners authorised to sign up at Beijing School–her training incorporated wielding a pneumatic drill on the Quantity One System Instrument Manufacturing unit. Within the identify of the Revolution, she renounced rock & roll, hauled pig manure Within the paddy fields, and became in a fellow pupil who sought her assist in attending to the USA. She additionally met and married the one American draft dodger from the Vietnam Conflict to are trying to find asylum in China.

Red China Blues is Wong’s startling–and ironic–memoir of her rocky six-yr romance with Maoism (which crumbled as she turned into acutely aware of the cruel realities of Chinese language communism); her dramatic firsthand account of the devastating Tiananmen Sq. rebellion; and her attractive portrait of the people and occasions she coated as a correspondent in China all the way through the tumultuous technology of capitalist reform beneath Deng Xiaoping. In a frank, fascinating, deeply non-public narrative she relates the horrors that ended in her disillusionment with the “employee’s paradise.” And during the tales of the folk–an unsatisfied younger girl who used to be offered into marriage, China’s so much well-known dissident, a physician who lengthens penises–Wong finds lengthy-hidden dimensions of the arena’s so much populous country.

In getting down to display readers Within the Western international what existence is like in China, and why we will have to care, she reacquaints herself with the antique pals–and enemies of her radical earlier, and involves phrases with the legacy of her ancestral hometown.

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