Revolution is not a dinner party
By: by Ying Chang Compestine.
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Waterville, Me
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781410407269
Subjects: Large type books; Persecution -- Fiction; Family life -- China -- Fiction; Physicians -- Fiction; Communism -- Fiction; Large type books; China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Juvenile fiction; China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.