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Flowing with the pearl river : memoir of a red China girl by Amy Chan Zhou is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amy Chan Zhou's searing memoir about growing up in rural Communist China features descriptions of pastoral beauty and tales of the simple joys of raising farm animals or catching fish in a local river. However, her childhood is scarred by the primitive conditions, her family's everyday struggle to obtain food, and the horror of witnessing relatives being tortured on a stage during "public denouncing" meetings. As the Communists take control of China in 1949, we follow the harrowing experiences of Chan Zhou's great-grandparents, grandparents, father, and mother during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s when landlords, business owners, artists, and scholars were branded as "bad elements" and "class enemies." As a teenager in the 1970s, while selling vegetables on the black market, Chan Zhou is accused of being a "little capitalist trader." The death of Mao ultimately saves Chan Zhou from being sent to a detention center, and her family's destiny is forever altered by Deng Xiaoping's reform that allows her family to reunite in Hong Kong, and subsequently emigrate to the United States. A blend of __Wild Swans__ and __The Red Scarf Girl__, __Flowing with the Pearl River__ is a vividly accurate p

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Author

Amy Chan Zhou

Publisher

Santa Monica Press Teen

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781595807823

Category

nonfiction