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English
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"A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong's protégée and lover--and a poster child for the Cultural Revolution--in this provocative, poignant novel from the bestselling author of A River of Stars On the eve of China's Cultural Revolution and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the capital, she seizes the opportunity to escape her impoverished...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Returning to his village invigorated by success in the army, Gao Aijun sees the beautiful Xia Hongmei walking barefoot alongside the railway track in the warm afternoon sun, and is instantly smitten. Hiding their relationship from their spouses, the pairhurl themselves into the struggle to bring revolution to their backwater village. They wait to consummate their relationship until Aijun has managed to dig a literal tunnel of love between their homes,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Two half brothers born to a powerful general, one to the general's wife and one to his mistress, know nothing of each others existence. One is driven to glorify his father, the other wants revenge.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A novel set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution follows a father's determination to reunite his family before his daughter Junie's twelfth birthday, even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light.
Author
Publisher
Disney*Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When Tai Shan and his father, Baba, are separated during China's Cultural Revolution, they are able to stay close by greeting one another every day with flying kites until Baba, like the kites, is free. Includes historical note.
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Set in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, Serve the people is a story about the forbidden love affair between Liu Lian, the young, pretty wife of a powerful division commander in Communist China, and her household's lowly servant, Wu Dawang.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sunflower blended effortlessly into her new family, becoming Bronze's little sister. The pair were always together: in the daytime, at night, in the sun, in the rain. And when the villagers saw them out in the fields, walking and having fun, a gentle warmth stirred inside them, melting and softening their hearts. Includes historical note.
11) Ninth building
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi’s experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside. Zou poetically captures a side of the Cultural Revolution that is less talked about—the sheer tedium and waste of young life, as well as the gallows humor that accompanies such desperate situations. Jeremy Tiang’s enthralling translation...
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