| Confessions of a Red Guard: A Memoir Contributor(s): Xiaosheng, Liang (Author), Goldblatt, Howard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1937385752 ISBN-13: 9781937385750 Publisher: Merwinasia OUR PRICE: $26.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - History | Asia - India & South Asia |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2017914808 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.14 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Unlike other accounts of the Cultural Revolution, novelist Liang Xiaosheng's Confessions of a Red Guard relates minor, intensely personal incidents affecting ordinary people during this extraordinary historical period. In the author's odyssey as a young Red Guard, he is witness to public humiliations of "counterrevolutionaries," real and imagined; a sex murder and the culprit's execution; a budding romance in a most unlikely place; stolen pleasures with forbidden books; the ecstasies and personal sacrifices surrounding a glimpse of Chairman Mao at Tiananmen Square; and a host of small ironies of life during a revolutionary movement. |
Contributor Bio(s): Xiaosheng, Liang: - Liang Xiaosheng is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter. Liang is a member of China Writers Association. He is also a professor at Beijing Language and Culture University. His novels have been translated into English, French, Japanese, Russian, and Italian. |