Red Land Yellow River: A Story from the Cultural Revolution by Ange Zhang [in AsianWeek]
25 Feb, by in Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost
A beautifully rendered, haunting autobiographical story about a young boy coming of age during China’s Cultural Revolution, a time marked with incomprehensible, dangerous, chaotic change. Absolutely breathtaking.
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