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2001., General, Anchor Books Call No: Fic Sij Edition: 1st Anchor Books edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village for re-education during China's infamous Cultural Revolution. There the two friends meet the daughter of the local tailor and discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation. As they flirt with the seamstress and secretly devour these banned works, the two friends find transit from their grim surroundings to worlds they never imagined.
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2012., Portfolio/Penguin Call No: Bio F949b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In her autobiography, Ping Fu tells her story as she lived it--from child soldier and political prisoner to a CEO and "Inc." magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year.
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c2004., University of Nebraska Press Call No: 951.05 S546s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: American lives
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c2012., Adult, Basic Books Call No: 951.05 P174h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In Heaven cracks, earth shakes, acclaimed historian James Palmer tells the story of 1976, the most tumultuous year in modern Chinese history. The year began with the death of the popular Premier Zhou Enlai, whose passing was widely mourned by the masses-- but this public grief quickly turned to anger when the Gang of Four stifled attempts to mourn Zhou publically. When a massive earthquake struck Tangshan a few months later, the disaster revealed the profound failures of Mao's China. As Tangshan lay in ruins, the central government cared more about ideological struggles than rescuing its own people. The year climaxed with Mao's death, followed in short order by a palace coup, which wrested the reins of power from the Gang of Four and put an end to the Cultural Revolution. -- Jacket, p. [2].
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1987, c1986., Grove Press Call No: 951.05 C518L Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2021., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: Fic Fen Edition: Simon & Schuster Canada edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday. What Junie doesn't know is that her parents, Momo and Cassia, are newly estranged from one another in their adopted country, both holding close private tragedies and histories from the tumultuous years of their youth during China's Cultural Revolution. In order for Momo to fulfill his promise, he must make one last desperate attempt to reunite all three members of the family before Junie's birthday - even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light."--Publisher.
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2011, c2010., Birlinn Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: This is a universal love story, a family saga, and a journey through Chinese history, myth, and culture. Following a young Chinese couple as their love grows, and is tested, during Mao's Cultural Revolution, this novel provides a rare and personal glimpse into the birth modern China. When the Kitchen God is challenged by the Jade Emperor to fathom the workings of the human heart, he chooses to follow the life of Jinyi and his wife Yuying, from their blossoming love until their old age, in hope of finding an answer. The Kitchen God watches as the new government strictures split their family in two, living inside their hearts as they they endure the loss of two children, homesickness, and isolation, all while keeping alive a love that survives famine, forced labor, and even death. Weaving together the story of their life with China's recent political history, as well as traditional folktales and myths, the Kitchen God illuminates the most impenetrable aspects the human condition.
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By Ai, Mi2011., Adult, House of Anansi Press Call No: Fic Ai Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: City dweller Jingqui is selected to work on an education project in the countryside to further the Cultural Revolution. Clever and curious, she wants to fit in and do well in her new environment, but instead, inappropriately, she falls in love with the son of a powerful army general.