Thirty years in a red house : a memoir of childhood and youth in Communist China / Zhu Xiao Di ; foreword by Ross Terrill. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhu, Xiao Di, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zhu, Xiao Di, 1958-.

Zhu, Xiao Di.

China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Personal narratives.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 255 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Zhu Xiao Di discusses what it was like to grow up during the Cultural Revolution in China and be involved in the Communist movement during the 1930's.

Contents:

Foreword / Ross Terrill

A Long-Awaited Son

Father as a Young Rebel

My Nanny

A Nice Neighborhood

Preoccupied Parents

Once upon a Time

Seven "Grandmas" and Ten "Grandpas"

My First Year in School

Values Coming from Picture Books

The Gathering Winds of the Storm

Red Guards at Home

"Good" Reasons against "Bad" People

Behind the Bedroom Door

The Early Storm Barely Hits Our Family

Surviving the Storm

A Legendary Man

The Rebels Didn't Get What They Wanted

A Family Torn Apart

Visiting My Parents in Their Labor Camps

My Sister in the Countryside

Life for "Art's" Sake

Nanny Gets a New Job

Brainwashing at School

Home, Sweet Home

Rice Pudding Almost Leads to Suicide

A Former Member of the Communist Party

"A Man Can Die Once, and Only Once!"

The Emperor's New Clothes

100 Years after the Paris Commune

My Mother Loses Her Freedom Again

Six Families in One House

A Trip to Visit My Redetained Mother

It Was Too Late

"What Do You Want to Be?"

It Was More Than Just Learning English

A Television Crew from Hawaii

"Nine-Pound Granny"

Mother Comes Home

Thousands of Miles for Nothing

"We, the True Marxists ..."

My Sister's Long Journey

"Good Will Be Rewarded with Good, and Evil with Evil"

Letters That Helped Others

Not Ready to Make the Pledge

Millions Arise after One Man's Death

Life Goes On

My First Job

Over Two Hundred Billion Hours Wasted

Back to Work Again at the Age of Sixty-three.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-122-05550-1

0-585-08432-7