![]() This is largely an effort to understand my wife's background, since her early life was defined by that disgraceful patch of history. This novel tells of the damage to people who lost such large pieces of their lives that they can never rebuild them.Įvery so often I have to read something about the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution was a low grade civil war, where the angriest manipulators were given license to act out. Everyone who ever cared about her suffered for her few moments of self esteem. ![]() She channeled her discipline, did not allow herself to feel and out Mao-ed the Maoists. ![]() Maybe this is all too personal a thing to have had stolen for a memoir, or maybe the experience was totally stolen, and maybe the these stories will come to us only in fiction. Some of the personal narratives of this period, "Wild Swan" comes to mind, tell of the deprivations and the humiliation, the power of the gang, but omit the experience of coming of age. To grow up in the Cultural Revolution is to have lost all of everything. To be hungry and impoverished is horrible enough, but to have your youth, energy and love stolen is another. ![]() This book makes you think about the millions of young people who had their lives taken away from them. ![]()
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