false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg 92936 24 <i>Red Azalea</i> is Anchee Min&#8217;s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao&#8217;s China. As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read, write, or love as she pleased, she found a lifeline in a secret love affair with another woman. Miraculously selected for the film version of one of Madame Mao&#8217;s political operas, Min&#8217;s life changed overnight. Then Chairman Mao suddenly died, taking with him an entire world. A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, Anchee Min&#8217;s memoir is exceptional for its candor, its poignancy, its courage, and for its prose which <i>Newsweek</i> calls "as delicate and evocative as a traditional Chinese brush painting." 89610 1994 Red Azalea total:1092|5:257|4:444|3:307|2:64|1:20| 1092 4130 1447 135 92936 1400096987 9781400096985 1001 117 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92936.Red_Azalea 5 0 false Wed Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sun Mar 22 14:49:17 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 09:23:18 -0700 2009
Min was too young to understand public criticisms and thought she was fi...more...]]> 92936 1400096987 9781400096985 1001 117 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92936.Red_Azalea 4 0 false Thu Mar 26 09:44:32 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 09:58:48 -0700 2009
It did. I had never read anything about ...more...]]> 827170 0425147762 9780425147764 59 13 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178730722m/827170.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827170.Red_Azalea_A_True_Story_of_Life_and_Love_in_China 4 1 true Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Dec 02 21:09:49 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 21:09:49 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 92936 1400096987 9781400096985 1001 117 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92936.Red_Azalea 4 1 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 16 11:44:21 -0800 2007 Thu Mar 06 13:58:08 -0800 2008 827170 0425147762 9780425147764 59 13 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178730722m/827170.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827170.Red_Azalea_A_True_Story_of_Life_and_Love_in_China 4 0 false Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Jan 06 15:22:01 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 15:22:32 -0800 2009
1) That I thought it was a phenomenal story.

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2) This book doesn't have Chapters. It has 3 Parts, so I found myself wanting to "at least" get to the end of the Part before stopping (not very do-able unl...more...]]> 92936 1400096987 9781400096985 1001 117 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92936.Red_Azalea 0 0 false Mon Dec 29 09:37:25 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 02 13:13:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 827170 0425147762 9780425147764 59 13 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178730722m/827170.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827170.Red_Azalea_A_True_Story_of_Life_and_Love_in_China 4 0 false Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 20:38:38 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 08:08:40 -0700 2009 Once
It's a simple story of the life of a young person in China during the Cultural Revolution. The hardships she and her family had to endure are difficult to even imagine much less read about. ...more...]]> 92936 1400096987 9781400096985 1001 117 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92936.Red_Azalea 2 0 false Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 12:45:56 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 13:00:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 92936 1400096987 9781400096985 1001 117 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92936.Red_Azalea 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu May 21 22:57:02 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 18:36:54 -0700 2009
Her reading was one of the best "readings"...more...]]> 92936 1400096987 9781400096985 1001 117 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92936.Red_Azalea 5 0 false Sat Oct 18 19:43:32 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 10:37:34 -0700 2008 The Good Women of China left me yearning for more true stories about the lives of Chinese women. Red Azalea is Anchee Min's memoir of her life in Communist China.

Born in Shanghai in 1957, Min embraced Mao's ideas during the cultural revolution and excelled in school as a lead...more...]]> 92936 1400096987 9781400096985 1001 117 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92936.Red_Azalea 4 0 false Wed Sep 03 16:52:31 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 18:37:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 92936 1400096987 9781400096985 1001 117 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92936.Red_Azalea 4 0 false Thu Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 20:50:12 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 21:01:10 -0700 2008
Despite the dreary communist setting and forced labor camps, this book is very lyrical and is really about...more...]]> 92936 1400096987 9781400096985 1001 117 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92936.Red_Azalea 5 0 false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Aug 29 18:51:34 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 19:14:24 -0700 2007
Even among the spate of memoirs out of the Cultural Revolutio...more...]]> 827170 0425147762 9780425147764 59 13 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178730722m/827170.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827170.Red_Azalea_A_True_Story_of_Life_and_Love_in_China 4 0 false Thu Dec 11 06:57:30 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 09 15:44:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 92936 1400096987 9781400096985 1001 117 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92936.Red_Azalea 4 0 false Tue May 27 16:35:59 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 16:54:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 92936 1400096987 9781400096985 1001 117 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92936.Red_Azalea 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon May 18 22:13:12 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 22:31:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 92936 1400096987 9781400096985 1001 117 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92936.Red_Azalea 0 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Jan 31 09:02:05 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 09:02:05 -0800 2009 Son of the Revolution, but this is a good fiction in the subgenre.more...]]> 92936 1400096987 9781400096985 1001 117 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92936.Red_Azalea 4 0 false Sat Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 06:46:52 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 02:28:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 92936 1400096987 9781400096985 1001 117 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92936.Red_Azalea 4 0 false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Wed Feb 11 21:49:08 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 21:49:43 -0800 2009 92936 1400096987 9781400096985 1001 117 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251696m/92936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92936.Red_Azalea 4 0 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Thu Feb 14 13:12:01 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 13:31:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=92936