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Daughter of the River Book

Spanning the Great Famine through to the Cultural Revolution and beyond, this exceptional and totally absorbing book is not only a testament to the youth of China who took fate in their own hands by marching on Tiananmen Square in April of 1989, but is also a complex--yet at the same time somehow disturbingly simple--memoir of a young girl growing up amid a poverty and squalor that we, in our cosy homes with food on the table and light and warmth, can barely envisage.Writing without sentimentality, and with a calm austerity that belies the passion of her youth, Hong Ying takes her reader to the very heart of her early life, growing up as she did with the stench of the slums on the banks of the Yangtze River seeping into her very soul. Her extraordinarily ordinary life, touched by … read more...
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