Red Azalea
 

Red Azalea

by Anchee Min

Red Azalea is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’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... (read more)

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Clembot
  • Rated 4 stars

Want to know about Communist China? Wow, here's the book to read then. I read it in just ONE sitting. Best/worst part? It's based entirely on a true story. Completely accessible, this book will shove you right into the delusional antics of a government that merely wanted to do good, but only succeeded in oppressing its people as well as tarnish China's reputation with the rest of the world. A tried-and-true memoir set against the crippled giant of an age long past.

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Monique
  • Rated 2 stars

Because I liked her 2nd book 'Madame Mao' and the critics about this book were good, I expected a lot of Red Azalea. Maybe I expected to much, because I didn't really liked it. This was the first Chinese book which I read iin which there was spoken so open about a lesbian relationship.

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  • Rated 4.475 stars
 

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