Liyan Liu

Eating Grass, Drinking Wine (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Eating Grass, Drinking Wine is a gripping memoir of the life of one woman and her family, which began in China under Mao Zedong in the 1950's. Surviving hardships and tribulations, she survived and made it to the United States where her life transformed for the better. This book is filled with powerful reflections of a China of the not too distant past. Survival was not necessarily a given in those very challenging years. Many people the author knew including relatives either died or disappeared in mass campaigns Mao launched, such as the Anti-Rightist Movement, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. It sheds light on a world much different than that of the West, told through the eyes of someone who lived it. This book also demonstrates the author's passion for and gratitude to her adopted homeland and the people she's met.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761882480
• Artikelnr.: 74829655

Autorenporträt

Liyan Liu is professor of history at Georgetown College and author of Red Genesis: The Hunan First Normal School and the Creation of Chinese Communism, 1903-1921.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Part One
Chapter One: Burning Down the House
Chapter Two: Red Paper Flowers
Chapter Three: I'm Leaving
Chapter Four: The Little Match-Seller
Chapter Five: Poison Ivy
Chapter Six: A Drop of Blood
Chapter Seven: A Single Plank
Part Two
Chapter Eight: A Touch of Elegance
Chapter Nine: A Raincoat Made of Straw
Chapter Ten: The Pride of Heaven
Chapter Eleven: A Wild, Vast Moor
Chapter Twelve: Guardian Angel
Chapter Thirteen: Guests in this World
Epilogue
About the Author