Spider Eaters A Memoir

Name: Spider Eaters A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780520276024

ISBN-10: 0520276027

ISBN-13: 9780520276024

Edition: 2013

Authors: Rae Yang

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Spider Eatersis 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 nearly drove her to suicide, and how she struggled to make sense of…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface to the Fifteenth Anniversary Edition


Author's Note



A Strange Gift from the Pig Farm



Old Monkey Monster



Nainai's Story Turned into a Nightmare



Nainai Failed Her Ancestors



Why Did Father Join the Revolution?



Second Uncle Was a Paper Tiger



The Chinese CIA



When Famine Hit



A Vicious Girl



Aunty's Name Was Chastity



Beijing 101 Middle School



The Hero in My Dreams



At the Center of the Storm



Red Guards Had No Sex



Semi-transparent Nights



"The Hero, Once Departed, Will Never Come Back"



In a Village, Think, Feel, and Be a Peasant



"The Tree May Wish to Stand Still, but the Wind Will Not Subside"



Death of a Hero: Nainai's Last Story



Remorse



Friends and Others



My First Love, a Big Mistake?



What Have I Lost? What Have I Gained?



Epilogue


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