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Revolution is not a dinner party : a novel
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Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances dee...
Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, 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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- Creator
- Ying Chang Compestine
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York : H. Holt, 2007
- Physical Details
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- 248 pages : maps ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0805082077, 9780805082074, 142875704X, 9781428757042
- OCLC
- ocm77333486
- Maps on endpapers.
- 1. Little flower -- Father's ponytails -- Waste is a great crime -- Bartering with Comrade Li-- Homemade ice cream and German chocolate -- "Bloodsucking landlord!" -- Will butterflies land on me? -- The terrifying birthday -- Crushed under the heel -- 2. Bamboo in the wind -- Revolution is not a dinner party -- Drawing a class line -- Dark clouds -- Would I ever see him again? -- The long white rope -- Shopping with Mother -- 3. Bridge behind Mao -- Angry tiger -- Too proud to bend -- Waiting for Daddy -- Howling wolf -- Pig fat -- Golden Gate Bridge -- Author's note -- Historical background
Subjects
- China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Juvenile fiction.
- Persecution -- Juvenile fiction.
- Families -- China -- Juvenile fiction.
- Physicians -- Juvenile fiction.
- Communism -- Juvenile fiction.
- China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Fiction.
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- Persecution -- Fiction.
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- Family life -- China -- Fiction.
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- Physicians -- Fiction.
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- Communism -- Fiction.
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