A first-hand account by Anchee Min of living in China under Mao who led the nation with cruel oppression. She never experiences a genuine childhood during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. She was compelled to betray her favorite teacher, and to become a peasant worker where she was later humiliated.
A memoir from a one-time supporter of the Maoist regime who experienced life in China as a member of the communist party and as a political prisoner on a labor farm.
