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Thirty Years in a Red House
A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China
Foreword by Ross Terrill
The wrenching saga of a patriotic Communist family in China
"A splendid lesson in 20th-century Chinese history."
Boston Globe
"Zhu's narrative is unique. . . . Zhu goes far beyond his family's
ordeals, linking personal and family experiences to a broader comprehension
of the [Chinese] nation's public history. The result is this highly readable
and thoughtful illustration of Chinese society under Mao's rule."
Choice
"An engaging account of one family's triumphs and travails in Mao
Tse-tung's Communist China. And Zhu's is no ordinary family. Nearly every
significant event in recent Chinese history seems to have a link to a close
relative."
Boston Herald
"This well-written memoir by a student of English tells of daily life
from his birth in China in 1958 to his departure in 1987. . . . Engrossing
and engaging."
Library Journal
"Provides a balanced and realistic view of one family's experience
in post-revolutionary China. In addition to offering readers a glimpse of
the personal life of a Chinese official [Zhu's father] and the ideals that
inspired him, Zhu's memoir documents his own coming of age and eventual
departure from a country that ultimately failed to live up to the hard-fought
ideals of his father's generation."
Sampan
Zhu Xiao DI came to the United States in 1987 to pursue graduate studies. He is a research associate at the Joint Center for Housing Studies in the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
Autobiography /
Asian Studies
288 pp., 24 illustrations
LC 97-15886
$40.00s cloth, ISBN 1-55849-112-0
$24.95s paper, ISBN 1-55849-216-X
1999
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