Spider Eaters

Name: Spider Eaters
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ISBN: 9780520215986

ISBN-10: 0520215982

ISBN-13: 9780520215986

Edition: 1998

Authors: Rae Yang

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Spider Eaters is at once a moving personal story, a fascinating family history, and a unique chronicle of political upheaval told by a Chinese woman who came of age during the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution. With stunning honesty and a lively, sly humor, Rae Yang records her life from her early years as the daughter of Chinese diplomats in Switzerland, to her girlhood at an elite middle school in Beijing, to her adolescent experience as a Red Guard and later as a laborer on a pig farm in the remote northern wilderness. She tells of her eventual disillusionment with the Maoist revolution, how remorse and despair drove her almost to suicide, and how she struggled to make sense of…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/10/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 318
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English