Spring Grass: Born into New China: A Memoir: Vol. 1 Qiyin Emurian

Spring Grass: Born into New China, is a richly detailed account of the period of my life from early childhood to the beginning of the violence and uncertainty unleashed by the Cultural Revolution. I began my journey as a spirited child of a well-to-do family in Shanghai. The day when I started primary school, I learned that my first name, Qiyin, meant spring grass in Chinese, blessing me to be like grass, not as charming as flowers, but always to be alive and thriving. I became unusually bold for a girl. The book reveals the gradual changes to my life and to the lives of my family and friends as Mao Zedong issued directives for the New China. With the start of the Cultural Revolution, my older brother and I, both ardent believers in Mao?s words and policies, joined the Red Guards to sweep away all vestiges of capitalism and the Four Old: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas. I found myself with the power to make life altering decisions about the lives of suspected traitors to the cause of class struggle, all the while a naive teenager struggling with the issues of adolescence. The second volume, Shanghai Winter, will show how my family and my fate were turned upside down by events during the Cultural Revolution. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Spring Grass: Born into New China: A Memoir: Vol. 1 (Qiyin Emurian)