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<p>This is the personal account of a man who grew up in China and witnessed tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution. Born in Nanjing in 1958, Zhu Xiao Di was the son of idealistic, educated parents. His father and uncles joined the Communist movement in the 1930s during the Japanese occupation and were influential underground and military leaders throughout the revolution. Despite their honorable history, they fell into political disfavor by the time of the Cultural Revolution. In 1968, when Zhu was just ten years old, his mother and father were taken to different labor camps for rehabilitation. In the face of this injustice, the Zhus struggled to maintain family ties and uphold traditional values. Eventually, the family was reunited and restored to some measure of prominence, and a monument was later erected in Nanjing in honor of Zhu's father, Zhu Qiluan. At the heart of this narrative are the trials of a family caught in the crosscurrents of history - from the early attractions of the Communist revolution to the national disaster that followed and the subsequent odyssey of recovery.</p> <h3>Choice</h3> <p>Following in the footsteps of Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai

Author

Di, Zhu Xiao

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781558491120

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

3.51 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14