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AUTHOR: Anchee Min
PUBLISHER: Anchor
LANGUAGE: English
DATE: 1993
PAGES: 306
ISBN: 9781400096985)
Red Azalea
by Anchee Min
Red Azalea is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read, write, or love as she pleased, she found a lifeline in a secret love affair with another woman. Miraculously selected for the film version of one of Madame Mao’s political operas, Min’s life changed overnight. Then Chairman Mao suddenly died, taking with him an entire world. A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, Anchee Min’s memoir is exceptional for its candor, its poignancy, its courage, and for its prose.
INCLUSION CRITERIA
Author Anchee Min identifies as bisexual.
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