Red Azalea: A Memoir

Min, Anchee

ISBN 10: 1400096987 / ISBN 13: 9781400096985

Verlag: Anchor, 2006

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Red Azalea: A Memoir
• Verlag: Anchor
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1400096987
• ISBN-13: 9781400096985
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: good

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, this is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, Min 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. This national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is exceptional for its candor, its poignancy, its courage, and for its prose which Newsweek calls "as delicate and evocative as a traditional Chinese brush painting."

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao's Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. She came to the United States in 1984 with the help of actress Joan Chen. Her memoir, Red Azalea, won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award in 1993 and was named a New York Times Notable Book in 1994. Other works from Min include Becoming Madame Mao, Empress Orchid, Katherine, and Wild Ginger