Vermilion Gate
Subtitle: An Extraordinary Stroy of Growing up in Communist China
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Little Brown U.K.
Published: April 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 819
ISBN-13: 9780349112855
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Biography: general; Marxism & Communism; Planned or state-controlled economies; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; General; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; CHINA_BIOGRAPHY; CHINA_HISTORY_1949-; CHINA_SOCIAL CONDITIONS_1949-; 1949-; 1951-; Biography; China; History; Mu, Aiping,
First sentence: At dawn, the city of Beijing (in the West often spelt as Peking), the traditional 'northern capital', was bathed in rosy clouds.