num_pages: 253
description: Red Azalea is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read, write, or love as she pleased, she found a lifeline in a secret love affair with another woman. Miraculously selected for the film version of one of Madame Mao’s political operas, Min’s life changed overnight. Then Chairman Mao suddenly died, taking with him an entire world. A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, Anchee Min’s memoir is exceptional for its candor, its poignancy, its courage, and for its prose which Newsweek calls "as delicate and evocative as a traditional Chinese brush painting."
language: English
title: Red Azalea : Life and Love in China
titlecomplete: Red Azalea : Life and Love in China
genres: Historical, Biography, Asia, Memoir, Nonfiction, China, Autobiography, Asian Literature, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 10051
publisher: Anchor Books