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Author:

Hua, Vanessa, author.

Title:

Forbidden city : a novel / Vanessa Hua.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Ballantine Books,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Teenage girls--China--Fiction.
Communism--Fiction.
Mao, Zedong,--1893-1976--Fiction.
China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

"A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong's protégée and lover--and a poster child for the Cultural Revolution--in this provocative, poignant novel from the bestselling author of A River of Stars On the eve of China's Cultural Revolution and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the capital, she seizes the opportunity to escape her impoverished village. It is only when Mei arrives at the Chairman's opulent residence--a forbidden city unto itself--that she learns that the girls' job is to dance with the Party elites. Ambitious and whip-smart, Mei makes a beeline toward the Chairman. Mei gradually separates from the other recruits to become the Chairman's confidante-and paramour. As he fends off political rivals, Mei faces down schemers from the dance troupe who will stop at nothing to take her place, as well as the Chairman's imperious wife, who has schemes of her own. When the Chairman finally gives Mei a political mission, she seizes it with fervor, but the brutality of this latest stage of the revolution makes her begin to doubt all the certainties she has held so dear. Forbidden City is an epic yet intimate portrayal of one of the world's most powerful and least understood leaders during the most turbulent period of modern Chinese history. Mei's harrowing journey toward truth and disillusionment raises questions about power, manipulation, and belief, as seen through the eyes of a passionate teenage girl"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0399178813
9780399178818

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1311594034

LCCN:

2021043089

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