Growing Up in The People’s Republic by Ye Weili with Xiaodong Ma

November 20, 2011 by Christina

Nonfiction — print. Translated from the Chinese. Palgrave, 2005. 177 pgs. Purchased. Subtitled “Conversations Between Two Daughters of China’s Revolution”, this oral history is a translation of a conversation between Ye and Ma as they recount their lives in China from the 1950s to the 1980s, which includes the volatile Cultural Revolution. Fashioning themselves as a misunderstood generation, the authors explain the impact the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the march towards the countryside had on their lives. […]

Categories: 2011 Reads, Asia, China, Chinese, Nonfiction, Textbook, Translated • Tags: Ma Xiaodong, Ye Weili