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Title: Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China by Xiao Di Zhu, Zhu Xiao Di, Ross Terrill ISBN: 1-55849-216-X Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.92 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Book greatly enhanced understanding of Chinese politics
Comment: Having spent two weeks in Beijing preceding and during President Clinton's state visit to China, I returned to the United States with many questions. I was curious to learn more about the Communist government, China's history, its culture, and especially, the conditions under which the Chinese people have lived in the period since Mao Zedong founded the People's Republic of China. In my quest for knowledge and understanding I came to read Zhu's _Thirty Years in a Red House_. This book offers the reader remarkable insight into the hardships and heartaches of a Chinese family during the years of the Cultural Revolution. While I had been dismayed at other accounts of the injustices dealt to the educated and intellectual citizens and leaders of this time, I was greatly heartened by Zhu's account of his parents' beliefs and practices in spite of the hardships they endured. This book gives one hope that the people of China will one day prevail, and that their leaders, both present and future, will learn from the sacrifices of those who went before.
Rating: 5
Summary: A brilliant memoir with an insider's fascinating perspective
Comment: Zhu, Xiao Di is a very courageous intelligent writer whose remarkable true story reads like a novel, as it goes to the core of what happened when the noble Chinese cause turns sour and the true believers become victims of the revolution.
It is a brilliant memoir that documents, with an insider's fascinating perspective, the painful difficulties faced by the author's family, under Chairman Mao's "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution."
I highly recommend it to anyone seeking to know and understand more about public history and society past and present in China.
Rating: 4
Summary: a book that reflected my time
Comment: I grew up in China. My family had similar experiences and background as the author. I could identify myself with the characters in the book. My personal experience was very painful before and during the "Cultural Revolution". For a long time, I couldn't look back without crying hard. Thank you for telling your story.
Whenever I read a book about China, either by native Chinese or foreigners, I found certain sterotype about China, Chinese families and Chinese people. A Chinese given name consists of 1 or 2 characters. Since Chinese characters are very rich in meanings they could represent, a name could tell a lot. My name, as well as my siblings' and all my cousins were carefully chosen by my grandfather. My given name, only two characters, tells where I was born. It also represents fountain flowing at great speed, which my grandpa thought was a symbol of life. It may be true that China is a male dominated society. However there are a lot of people who don't follow the trend. I was the third girl in the family. My parents were just as happy if not happier about my birth as compared if I were a boy. As a matter of fact, in the environment I grew up, there was no difference what so ever about boys or girls whom the parents preferred. Many families actually preferred girls to boys as Chinese people all believe when children grow up, girls are more considerate to their parents (this is another sterotype, but many believe it). I guess, after all, it is the parents, not the society decide if boys are preferred to girls. Families are different in China, just like they are different in the States.
BTW, My late father was a surgeon. My beloved mother had been a teacher before she decided to quit her job to be a full time mom.
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Title: Red China Blues : My Long March From Mao to Now by Jan Wong ISBN: 0385482329 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 19 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Good Women of China : Hidden Voices by Xinran Xue ISBN: 0375422013 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Daughter of the River: An Autobiography by Hong Ying ISBN: 0802136605 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng ISBN: 014010870X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Red Azalea by Anchee Min ISBN: 0425147762 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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