The Unceasing Storm (Paperback)

Katherine Luo

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Douglas & McIntyre, Toronto, 2018

1771621869 / 9781771621861

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Paperback. Just over fifty years ago, China's Cultural Revolution began. The movement was intended to bring about a return to revolutionary Maoist beliefs and resulted in attacks on intellectuals and those believed to be counter-revolutionaries, capitalists and rightists; a large-scale purge in government posts; the appearance of a personality cult around Mao Zedong; and an estimated death count of between one and threemillion.When Katherine Luo moved from Hong Kong to mainland China in1955to study drama and opera, she hoped her ideals and patriotism might help to build her country. Like many citizens, she loved the motherland and admired its revolutionary leaders. After years of completely trusting the regime, rationalizing its decisions and betrayals, and criticizing herself for doubting the Party, she realized that no matter how much she loved China, it would never love her back because she had the wrong background-capitalist class origins and overseasconnections.The Unceasing Stormdescribes Luo's personal struggles-among other things, she was expelled from university, forbidden to marry her first love, and accused of being a spy-but it is also the memoir of a generation, representative of similar incidents occurring all over China. Luo's colleagues and famous artists were dogged by their backgrounds-the unluckiest in the "to be executed, imprisoned or placed under surveillance" category; family members and teachers were labelled rightists; friends and war heroes were imprisoned; careers were ruined, families separated, ordinary people lifted to power one morning and destroyed overnight.Some of those with stories to tell perished, of those who lived, many prefer to forget, and others burned all written records to avoid being incriminated. When the people involved in the revolution have all died, it will be all too easy to forget or pretend it never happened.The Unceasing Stormis one step towards creating a truthful record of contemporaryChina. A rare and poignant memoir of life in mainland China during the Chinese CulturalRevolution. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
The Unceasing Storm (Paperback)
Autor
Katherine Luo
Verlag
Douglas & McIntyre, Toronto
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Zustand
new
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
1771621869
ISBN-13
9781771621861

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