China’s Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution by Da Chen [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Aug, by in Chinese, Chinese American, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Here's the young adult version of Chen’s lyrical bestseller, Colors of the Mountain.
Reviews: "Young Reads," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, August/September 2001
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