by Anchee Min · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · tapa dura · ISBN 9780575055292
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«Red Azalea» is Anchee Min's memoir, published by Orion Publishing Group, Limited in hardcover (252 pages, in English).
Anchee Min recalls her youth during the Chinese Cultural Revolution: her education as a member of the Red Guard, her work at the Red Fire Farm, and her emotional and sexual awakening with another woman. With novelistic touches, the author also narrates her training as an actress in propaganda films and her departure from China.
The cover features the subtitle «Life and Love in China». The work, published in 1993, is a memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1969).
For readers of memoirs and biography, especially those seeking an intimate look at Cultural Revolution China from a woman's experience.
Anchee Min is a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. Min has published two memoirs, Red Azalea and The Cooked Seed: A Memoir, and six historical novels. Her fiction emphasizes strong female characters, such as Jiang Qing, the wife of chairman Mao Zedong, and Empress Dowager Cixi, the last ruling empress of China.
