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Revolution is not a dinner party : a novel

Revolution is not a dinner party : a novel

Compestine, Ying Chang.
Book 2009

Starting in 1972 when she is nine, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.

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China History Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 Juvenile fiction
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ISBN:
9780312581497
0312581491
Edition:
First Square Fish edition
Description:
248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York : Henry Holt, 2007. With additional material
"Go fish--look inside for an interview with Ying Chang Compestine"--P. [4] of cover
Control Number:
710626
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