No Tears for Mao: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution by Niu-Niu, Niu Niu

No Tears for Mao: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution

Niu-Niu, Niu Niu

287 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging emotional informative slow-paced

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Niu-Niu (NOO-Noo) was four years old when, amidst the rubble that had been her comfortable "bourgeois" home, she watched the beating of her helpless parents, and saw them, bloody and with shaven heads, taken away for what seemed like forever. That...

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