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Thirty years in a red house : a memoir of childhood and youth in Communist China / Zhu Xiao Di ; foreword by Ross Terrill.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585084327
  • 9780585084329
  • 9781122055505
  • 1122055501
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thirty years in a red house.DDC classification:
  • 951.05/6 B 21
LOC classification:
  • DS778.7 .Z48 1998eb
Other classification:
  • 15.75
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword / Ross Terrill -- A Long-Awaited Son -- Father as a Young Rebel -- My Nanny -- A Nice Neighborhood -- Preoccupied Parents -- Once upon a Time -- Seven "Grandmas" and Ten "Grandpas" -- My First Year in School -- Values Coming from Picture Books -- The Gathering Winds of the Storm -- Red Guards at Home -- "Good" Reasons against "Bad" People -- Behind the Bedroom Door -- The Early Storm Barely Hits Our Family -- Surviving the Storm -- A Legendary Man -- The Rebels Didn't Get What They Wanted -- A Family Torn Apart -- Visiting My Parents in Their Labor Camps -- My Sister in the Countryside -- Life for "Art's" Sake -- Nanny Gets a New Job -- Brainwashing at School -- Home, Sweet Home -- Rice Pudding Almost Leads to Suicide -- A Former Member of the Communist Party -- "A Man Can Die Once, and Only Once!" -- The Emperor's New Clothes -- 100 Years after the Paris Commune -- My Mother Loses Her Freedom Again -- Six Families in One House -- A Trip to Visit My Redetained Mother -- It Was Too Late -- "What Do You Want to Be?" -- It Was More Than Just Learning English -- A Television Crew from Hawaii -- "Nine-Pound Granny" -- Mother Comes Home -- Thousands of Miles for Nothing -- "We, the True Marxists ..." -- My Sister's Long Journey -- "Good Will Be Rewarded with Good, and Evil with Evil" -- Letters That Helped Others -- Not Ready to Make the Pledge -- Millions Arise after One Man's Death -- Life Goes On -- My First Job -- Over Two Hundred Billion Hours Wasted -- Back to Work Again at the Age of Sixty-three.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: Zhu Xiao Di discusses what it was like to grow up during the Cultural Revolution in China and be involved in the Communist movement during the 1930s.
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Foreword / Ross Terrill -- A Long-Awaited Son -- Father as a Young Rebel -- My Nanny -- A Nice Neighborhood -- Preoccupied Parents -- Once upon a Time -- Seven "Grandmas" and Ten "Grandpas" -- My First Year in School -- Values Coming from Picture Books -- The Gathering Winds of the Storm -- Red Guards at Home -- "Good" Reasons against "Bad" People -- Behind the Bedroom Door -- The Early Storm Barely Hits Our Family -- Surviving the Storm -- A Legendary Man -- The Rebels Didn't Get What They Wanted -- A Family Torn Apart -- Visiting My Parents in Their Labor Camps -- My Sister in the Countryside -- Life for "Art's" Sake -- Nanny Gets a New Job -- Brainwashing at School -- Home, Sweet Home -- Rice Pudding Almost Leads to Suicide -- A Former Member of the Communist Party -- "A Man Can Die Once, and Only Once!" -- The Emperor's New Clothes -- 100 Years after the Paris Commune -- My Mother Loses Her Freedom Again -- Six Families in One House -- A Trip to Visit My Redetained Mother -- It Was Too Late -- "What Do You Want to Be?" -- It Was More Than Just Learning English -- A Television Crew from Hawaii -- "Nine-Pound Granny" -- Mother Comes Home -- Thousands of Miles for Nothing -- "We, the True Marxists ..." -- My Sister's Long Journey -- "Good Will Be Rewarded with Good, and Evil with Evil" -- Letters That Helped Others -- Not Ready to Make the Pledge -- Millions Arise after One Man's Death -- Life Goes On -- My First Job -- Over Two Hundred Billion Hours Wasted -- Back to Work Again at the Age of Sixty-three.

Zhu Xiao Di discusses what it was like to grow up during the Cultural Revolution in China and be involved in the Communist movement during the 1930s.

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