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University of California Press, 1997. hardback. very good condition in a very good dust jacket
SPIDER EATERS, a Memoir by Rae Yang - 1997
by Rae Yang
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University of California Press, Berkeley - first edition 1997 Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket Clean, crisp copy. AS NEW book in AS NEW dust jacket Fawn covered boards, 9.25" x 6", with red-silver type to maroon quarter-bound spine, twenty b/w photographic illustrations, & jacket. Chinese- American academic's memoirs of life in post-1949 (Cultural Revolution) China.
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- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley - first edition
- Date Published 1997
- Pages 286 pages
- Keywords autobiography:S-Z memoirs refugees and immigrants biography
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Berkeley.: University of California Press.. First Edition.. 1997. Black and white photographic illustrations, 285pp, deacquisitioned ex-library copy with stamp and remains of pocket lower endpaper, otherwise a good clean hardback in dustjacket with faded spine. "Spanning the years from 1950 to 1980, this work represents the personal story of a Chinese woman who came of age during the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution. The author records her life from her early years as the daughter Chinese diplomats in Switzerland, to her girlhood at an elite middle school in Beijing, to her adolescent experience as a Red Guard and later as a labourer on a pig farm in the remote northern wilderness. She tells of her eventual disillusionment with the Maoist revolution and how she struggled to make sense of conflicting events that often blurred the line between victim and victimizer, aristocrat and peasant, communist and counterrevolutionary. Moving between past and present, dream and reality, the author…
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