Red Azalea by Anchee Min

Red Azalea

Anchee Min

306 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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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, writ...

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Moods

emotional 78%
informative 68%
reflective 57%
sad 57%
dark 47%
tense 47%
challenging 36%
adventurous 26%
inspiring 26%
hopeful 10%
mysterious 5%

Pace

medium 63%
slow 26%
fast 10%

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