Red China blues : my long march from Mao to now

Wong, Jan, author.

Book 1996

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 and roll, hauled pig manure in the paddy fields, and turned in a fellow student who soug...

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ISBN:

9780868246284
9780385476799
9780385254908
086824628X
0385476795
0385254903

Edition:

First Doubleday/Anchor Books edition

Description:

x, 405 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Notes:

Illustrated lining-papers
Includes index

Contents:

pt. I. Fool's paradise. 1. Montreal Maoist. 2. Revolutionary tourist. 3. Welcome you! 4. Pyongyang panty thief. 5. Rationing friends. 6. Snitching
part II. Trouble in paradise. 7. Big joy farm. 8. Chairman Mao's geishas. 9. Matchmaker. 10. Peasant under glass. 11. True lies
part III. Paradise lost. 12. Dancing with dissidents. 13. People power. 14. "Safegaurd your lives"
15. End of the snitch dynasty. 16. Professor Ding's list. 17. China's gulag. 18. Chasing the dragon
part IV. Paradise regained? 19. Workers of the world united. 20. Ferrari Li. 21. Middle-class kingdom

LCCN:

96164627

Control Number:

58426

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