Hand-Grenade Practice in Peking
Subtitle: My Part in the Cultural Revolution
By: Frances Wood
Series: Slightly Foxed paperbacks; Slightly Foxed paperbacks
Publisher: Slightly Foxed Ltd
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781906562823
Subjects: Travel; Biography; Foreign students; Foreign study; History; Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Foreign Students; Beijing yu yan xue yuan; Beijing da xue
Description: "China in 1975 was a strange, undiscovered country, still half-mad from Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, when young Frances Wood boarded a plane in London to study for a year in Peking. Based on the letters she wrote home, this account of her experiences is both affecting and hilarious, a unique insight into a mysterious and painful moment in China's history."--Back cover.
Notes: Originally published by John Murray in 2000.
Table of contents: title: I Return to Peking; title: Model Revolutionary Life; title: The First Chinese Reader; title: The Ceremony of Entering into Traffic; title: Kiessling's Canteen; title: Letters of Determination; title: Freezing Sheets; title: First and Last Respects; title: Two Poems and Another Funeral; title: Deepest Cold; title: Not a University but a Thermometer; title: Foreign Affairs; title: My Poisonous Influence; title: Negative Teaching Material; title: North Korean English; title: Failing to Plant Rice; title: A Visiting Fireman; title: High Summer and a Third Funeral; title: Holidays and Earthquakes; title: Aftershocks; title: Verdicts Reversed Again.