Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Zhu, Xiao Di, 1958-

Publication

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1998.

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Details

Description

xiv, 255 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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.

Subject

• Zhu, Xiao Di, 1958-
• 1966-1976
• Geschichte 1966-1969
• 15.75 history of Asia
• Erlebnisbericht
• Autobiografie
• Jeugdjaren
• Culturele Revolutie
• China > History > Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 > Personal narratives
• China
• China > Kulturrevolution

Genre/Form

• History.
• Personal narratives.
• Memoirs (form)
• Récits personnels.

Note

• Includes index.

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.

ISBN

• 1558491120
• 9781558491120
• 155849216X
• 9781558492165

LCCN

97015886

OCLC

• ocm36954521
• 36954521
• SCSB-14437149

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library