Red China Blues My Long March from Mao to Now

Name: Red China Blues My Long March from Mao to Now
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ISBN: 9780385482325

ISBN-10: 0385482329

ISBN-13: 9780385482325

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jan Wong

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Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool Factory. In the name of the Revolution, she renounced rock & roll, hauled pig manure in the paddy fields, and turned in a fellow student who sought her help in getting to the United States. She also met and married the only American draft dodger from the Vietnam War to seek asylum in China. Red China Blues is Wong's startling--and ironic--memoir of her rocky six-year romance with Maoism (which…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/19/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.20" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

JAN WONG was the Beijing correspondent for the Toronto Globe and Mail from 1988 to 1994 and received a George Polk Award and other honors for her reporting. Wong has written for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications, and is the author of three books, including Red China Blues.