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Author:

Compestine, Ying Chang.

Title:

Revolution is not a dinner party : a novel / Ying Chang Compestine.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

H. Holt,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

248 p. : maps ; 21 cm.

Subject:

China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Juvenile fiction.
Persecution--Juvenile fiction.
Families--China--Juvenile fiction.
Physicians--Juvenile fiction.
Communism--Juvenile fiction.
China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Fiction.
Persecution--Fiction.
Family life--China--Fiction.
Physicians--Fiction.
Communism--Fiction.

Notes:

Maps on endpapers.

Contents:

3. Historical background. Father's ponytails -- Waste is a great crime -- Bartering with Comrade Li-- Homemade ice cream and German chocolate -- "Bloodsucking landlord!" -- Will butterflies land on me? -- The terrifying birthday -- Crushed under the heel -- 2. Bamboo in the wind -- Revolution is not a dinner party -- Drawing a class line -- Dark clouds -- Would I ever see him again? -- The long white rope -- Shopping with Mother -- 3. Bridge behind Mao -- Angry tiger -- Too proud to bend -- Waiting for Daddy -- Howling wolf -- Pig fat -- Golden Gate Bridge -- Author's note -- Historical background.

Summary:

Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.

ISBN:

9781428757042 (BWI bdg.)
142875704X (BWI bdg.)
9780805082074 (alk. paper)
0805082077 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)77333486

LCCN:

2006035465

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